Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp ad-libbed his way into a radio job. On the strength of his guest appearances on Information Please and Town Meeting, he was hired as summer substitute for Drew Pearson. "I'll be a humorous news commentator," said Capp, "if I can find any humorous news to comment...
...such committees. In order to find out what these committees have accomplished, the Council asks each of them to submit a report--almost every weekly Council meeting is devoted to discussion of one or more of such reports. Last December one of these committees--the one on Class Affairs--drew up and offered to the Council a comprehensive and well-thought-out plan for a revised schedule of class activities and organization. After the customary period of discussion and disagreement and delay, the Council, on March 2, got around to adopting, almost in toto, the committee's proposals...
Voznesensky's book was more than mere fear mongering. It was also a statistical statement of the Soviet war potential. From it, after months of painstaking analysis, the U.S. House Select Committee on Foreign Aid (Herter Committee) last week drew some important conclusions. The highlights...
...when one of his followers was about to leave for Oxford to meet a visiting Italian priest, Newman drew him aside and said softly: "When you see your friend, will you tell him that I wish him to receive me into the Church of Christ...
...star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson would be playing Johnson; Menjou (in a double-breasted vest) is rather more Menjou than politician. Only Lansbury, whom Metro has long dieted on lean parts, does any real acting. As the adderish lady publisher, she sinks a fine fang...