Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading the field, has all of last season's big-timers back, plus several of CBS's choicest (Take It or Leave It, Jimmy Durante, Your Hit Parade). Comedy will continue to be NBC's long suit (Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Amos 'n' Andy). Glossiest and one of the most ballyhooed of the new NBC shows: the Kraft Music Hall, with Al Jolson and Oscar Levant...
...fact was plain: the Air Age needed a lot of supercharging from state subsidies to maintain flying speed. Because of subsidies, free-enterprising American-flag lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails. On the choicest route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened a new run to Hong Kong from French Indo...
...false moves, and even the choicest young prospect is expelled from the ranks of Southern California's youthful tennis elect. Perry Jones, who runs the region's amateur tennis (as secretary of the local tennis association), demands that his protégés get good marks in conduct and in book-learning both; they may some day be on display at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. Four years ago, the school's problem child was a talented Mexican-American lad of 15 who found both discipline and schoolwork distasteful. He cut classes at high school, finally dropped...
With a blare of trumpets, CBS publicists this week introduced radio's latest Boy Wonder. Pale, thinly handsome Fletcher Markle, 26, is writer-producer-director of Studio One, a bright, new, hour-long dramatic series on one of radio's choicest spots (Tuesdays...
...diggers' map of the world is Soviet Russia. Modern man himself probably developed somewhere in Soviet Asia. Scattered thickly from the Black Sea to Manchuria are fascinating mysteries which the diggers yearn to probe. But the Soviet Government excludes outsiders; Soviet diggers, like learned squirrels, hide their choicest finds from outside scrutiny...