Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Everett, Wash., state highway police sent out a hurry call for local cops to help stop a black limousine hurtling along well over the speed limit, then called them off in a hurry when they found the car belonged to Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie...
...blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed the Japanese radio hit parade...
...disturb [petting couples] unless the conduct is [attracting] attention . . . If their conduct is noticeable . . . say: 'It will be necessary for me to call one of the management if your attitude does not change at once...
Irish Novelist Sean O'Faolain (A Nest of Simple Folk and The Great O'Neill) would never call himself a professional historian; his new book pretends to no scholarly grandeur and contains little beyond what O'Faolain had at his finger tips. But there have been few offhand studies of Irish history that manage to be so illuminating or so urbane...
...Columbia 33⅓-r.p.m. turntable, plug it into the old 78 r.p.m. machine, and call it a solution? Nearly a million record buyers have done just that. But millions of others have hesitated. RCA Victor has by far the world's largest recording roster of fine artists. Would the rest of the industry be pulled into RCA's strong orbit? Until they had the answer, many record collectors stopped buying altogether...