Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home of the Brave. An outspoken anti-prejudice film about the crack-up of a Negro G.I. (TIME...
...Glyndebourne Opera's Rudolf Bing was relaxing in his Manhattan hotel room before returning to London. He had just finished a business errand for Britain's crack opera company; Glyndebourne's U.S. debut at Princeton, N.J. had been set for autumn 1950, and Bing was well satisfied. Then his phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen...
Giannini's death will bring few changes in Bank of America policy. His empire is in the hands of such trusty viziers as his son, Lawrence Mario ("L.M.") Giannini, who has been president since 1936, and Chairman Al J. Gock, a crack operating...
...Tongg, a crack skeet-shooter, had taken only a few potshots at established island businesses. But in 1946, he aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...
Home of the Brave. Hollywood's first crack at anti-Negro discrimination, delivered with the courage of its convictions (TIME...