Word: chit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates tied for eighth place in the voting, and therefore, Thursday's ballot for the four Marshal positions will include nine names. Thomas C. Bagnoli, Christopher T. Bayley, Arthur S. Cahn, W. Clarke Hudson, Joseph K. Hurd, Chit R. Kapur, Langley C. Keyes, Robert S. Lawrence, and James D. Lorenz will appear on the ballot...
...CHIT R. KAPUR...
Fiery Diva Maria Callas, her flames fairly well banked, rested in Milan before filming some jovial chit-chat for CBS Pundit Ed Murrow's TV talkathon, Small World. Meanwhile, back at her lawyers' office, things were less restful. Already soprano non grata at Milan's La Scala and Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, litigious Maria tossed a damage suit against another offending management: the Rome Opera House, which sacked her a year ago (TIME, Jan. 20, 1958) after she walked out after the first act of Norma pleading a "lowering of the voice." With a hint that...
...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
...weeklies' resurgence reflects editorial as well as economic vitality. In addition to relaying the back-fence chit-chat on which weeklies have traditionally thrived, the papers are the only inter preters and watchdogs of local governments in hundreds of U.S. communities, whose problems, aims and achievements go largely unrecorded in the metropolitan press. "We wouldn't be here if the dailies hadn't created the void in the first place," says a staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus...