Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate lost its mightiest atom last week. Washington's little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 lb.) Homer Truett Bone, 61, got a Presidential appointment as Federal Circuit Judge (seven Western states, Alaska, Hawaii, China). Two-Term Senator Bone had certain renomination and election within his grasp, could he but campaign for it. But a fall in his Tacoma home in 1939 left him crippled; repeated operations had further impaired his health. For a year his right leg has been massaged daily by the Senate doctor. (Said Senator Bone dryly : "After all these years of having my leg pulled...
...Copacabana nightclub. A 179-lb. wraith of her former self, she wowed her audience with numbers from Some of These Days (which she introduced in 1909) to Mairzy Doats, rocked the club with a doubly meaningful closing act called "Dr. Tucker's Remedy." Said Miss Tucker: "Oldtime circuit vaudeville will never come back, but my show is the same as it has always been; favorites last. Everyone, everyone is so friendly, and as for my friend," she gestured across her dressing room, "Dr. Chung is a great-woman...
...more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt of Bristol, R.I.), who had arrived at opera after a fling at Broadway drama (L'Aiglon, Cradle Song) and the nightclub circuit (Spivy's Roof...
Further to quiet complaints the Army Pictorial Service proudly pointed out that Jane Eyre (TIME, Feb. 21) was released to the China-Burma-India circuit in December...
...adding machine. The message goes to the mechanical brain, called a "marker," which hunts out an available trunk line, tests a path to the destination and electrically sets up all connections-all within one second. If all lines are busy, overflow calls are stacked up in a special circuit and put through in order of priority as soon as lines are free. The marker has a trouble indicator which, on bungled calls, reports where & what the trouble...