Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Washington Post's Music Critic Paul Hume got back to his office from Constitution Hall one night last week, he addressed himself to an uncomfortable chore-criticizing the President's daughter. He had just heard Margaret Truman's Washington concert. In a sense, it had been a triumphal occasion: the hall had been packed with Washington bigwigs, including both her father and Clement Attlee; Soprano Truman had looked radiant on the stage and had drawn waves of friendly applause...
...Grand. Capp writes the story the strips tell, and the dialogue in which it is told, and draws the faces of the characters. Amato and Johnston-who each get 10% of Capp's profits, or about $30,000 a year-produce figures and backgrounds and finish the laborious chore of inking in the finished product. Capp does his work in long, furious bursts. He usually turns out a month's strips in two weeks...
Music I listening hours were the 'Cliffe station's chore in return for certain special broadcasts and popular Network programs. The men also proved convenient to have around to solve many mechanical complexities of the new system. Radio Radcliffe now has its own squad of skilled craftswomen handling the production difficulties...
Station WNBC, searching desperately for a replacement, found a formidable one: Eleanor Roosevelt, who will be assisted on her Monday-through-Friday chore by son Elliott. On her 45-minute show, Mrs. Roosevelt plans to interview "outstanding personalities," and discuss art, books, plays and fashions, as well as major problems facing the world. Said WNBC: "She is available for sponsorship...
...Allen & Shannon whirl through their chore by rote, they also pause long enough to give out a good many brass rings. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft gets a grudging tribute but a high one: "He never ducks an issue." Illinois' Paul Douglas is described as "outstandingly the ablest man in the Senate ... for solid intellectual force...