Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...park of a bed, and where French Nightclub Singer Denise Darcel talks carefully broken English. There are a good many indistinguishable songs and dances, and now & then there is a refreshing change from sex to seasickness or sanitation. The revue also shows its ancestry at moments by having people climb into boxes or letting feathers fall from the roof. Out of it all emerges one pleasant dance number about snow men, and one entertaining number requiring a palm tree tied to a chair...
Director General Sir William Haley sees the three basic services as a cultural pyramid up which the listener is led "from good to better." Ideally, listeners begin this cultural mountain climb by tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have...
...Sapphire seemed to be a prize. Shown publicly only last month, it has a thrust of 7,200 Ibs., or 1,000 Ibs. more than Pratt & Whitney's improved Nene. Britain's Gloster Meteor 8 fighter, powered by two Sapphires, reportedly can climb from take-off to 40,000 ft. in four minutes. Wright also was licensed to build Armstrong Siddeley's best turboprop engines, the "Python," the "Mamba" and the "Double Mamba." In addition, the two companies agreed to "exchange knowledge" on research, technical information and products for seven years...
They started to make trips to the Savoy on Massachusetts Avenue to listen to trumpeter "Red" Allen and the Searsdale (New York) High School sensation, clarinetist Bob Wilbur. After a time, when they became known at the Savoy, they woud climb up on the stand and take over the nightclub...
...will be a long, hard climb, however, for Harvard must face teams with more effective defenses than Columbia; and quarterbacks possessing even greater deception and passing ability than Mitchell Prince will direct more powerful offenses...