Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leathery, pot-bellied Tom Garry was the Kelly-Nash henchman who had charge of Stadium decorations. By prearrangement, he also had an electrical pipe line to the loudspeaker circuit, which was supposed to be controlled exclusively from the convention rostrum. In the hour of his triumph last week he was ensconced in a tiny basement room, where the amplifier circuits were centred. Six times he ran from "the catacombs" to Mayor Kelly's box and up into the galleries to survey the milling, parading, shouting results of his tongue work, then dashed back to his microphone...
...cars full of gasoline and sent them hurrying to Germany; pleaded with Rome and Berlin for advice on the Russian note. All this added up to Britain's fondest hope: that somewhere along that long electrified line between German and Russian spheres there might soon be a short circuit, then a fire...
...Shad but a Toledo-bred onetime Roman Catholic, Shattuck's new head helped work his way through Kenyon College by fiddling in a band, cut his missionary teeth in South Dakota's Rose bud Indian Reservation, where he had four white communicants on his 110-mile circuit...
...severed relations with his coach, reportedly on advice of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Upset by the ensuing publicity when Hudson threatened to sue the U. S. L. T. A. for alienation of affections, Kovacs was no great shakes in his first tour of the big-time circuit. Last summer, bothered by a tennis elbow, he did not compete in the important Eastern tournaments, but in the late-season Pacific Coast championship he outplayed Australia's top-ranking Adrian Quist and Yugoslavia's top-ranking Franjo Puncec before bowing to Bobby Riggs in the final...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what many a plain citizen has long suspected: that most popular songs sound pretty much alike. Jack Darrell, author, decade ago, of a not very successful ditty called Does Anybody Want a Kewpie?, had brought suit for plagiarism against Al Sherman and Abner Silver, whose It Happened on the Beach at Bali Bali was a hit five years ago. Darrell showed that the same eight-note theme recurs in each song. But the Circuit Court dismissed his complaint. Said its three learned judges: although there are plenty of combinations...