Word: dumont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alexander Harvey, 80, Brussels-born onetime reporter (the old New York Evening Telegram), an editor on the New York Herald, and the Literary Digest, critic (William Dean Howells) and essayist; in Dumont...
...industry-wide jitters stemmed from the fear that the public, expecting color TV in the near future, might stop buying black & white sets. According to Du-Mont's Dr. Allen B. DuMont, the present color converters are expensive, and so complicated that, if color telecasts began tomorrow, every set now in use would have to go to a factory for proper installation. All in all, the industry wished the subject had not come...
Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & DuMont). Milton Berle's final telecast of the season...
...into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered: "Chegamos" (We have arrived). Grunted Dutra...
...tonight's debate, the Gardner Club will act as counsel for the defendant in the case of Local No. 861 v. John B. Dumont, a test case involving the constitutionality of a provision in the Taft-Hartley Act barring Union expenditures for political purposes...