Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music. And between shows, when very often one theme has to be faded down, another theme faded up and down, and the first record for a show started all within about two minutes, the tech girl often wishes she bad three arms. The tech girl also has to "cue" a record, seeing that it starts at the beginning of the music, neither with a long pause before-hand, nor in the middle of the first movement...
...taking their cue from Washington, local officials are trying to keep their doings out of sight of the public. At last week's meetings, publisher after publisher told of closed meetings held by school boards, city councils and others handling public funds. Not all the reasons were sinister (explained one alderman: "If you quoted what we said, we would sound like fools"). But there seemed a growing assumption that public business is none of the public's business. Samples...
...once the students have fulfilled their legal attendance requirement for a particular day, they are free to do whatever they wish--and religious learning is usually low on their list of preferred after-noon activities. Even if parents order their children to forsake the Louisville slugger or the pool cue, there is no defense against the time-honored tradition of hooky...
...back. The Central Bank of Argentina announced that henceforth import permits will be required for many U.S. magazines and the Argentine post office said that 13 of them were banned from the mails. The banks made it plain that no import licenses would be issued. The 13: LIFE, Look, Cue, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Vision, U.S. News & World Report, United Nations World, Quick, Business Week, Editor & Publisher, Harper's and Cosmopolitan. TIME was left off the new list only because it has been banned from Argentina ever since...
Boyer is also a great hypochondriac. During most of the first tour, he kept constant check on his temperature with two thermometers. Sometimes he even sneaked one on stage, concealed it behind his hand and took his temperature between lines. Once, Agnes Moorehead threw him a sudden, unexpected cue, and Boyer had to sputter the thermometer out of his mouth before returning to his role of the Great Lover...