Word: everly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent expansion of the Lowell Institute's adult education program is worth attention and support from radio listeners. The Institute, which is rebroadcasting college lectures by such men as Seymour Harris, points more directly than ever to the tremendous potentialities of radio as a constructive force for education...
...ever Katherine Hepburn had the perfect medium for her ability, she had it Monday night in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The play is full of witty yet wise side remarks that need her kittenish sophistication; she, in turn, is at her best in the vaporous atmosphere, the half-fantasy world of Arden Forest. The combination--Shakespeare and Hepburn--is nearly unbeatable for producing an evening's enjoyment...
...appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with a pursuit that at first threatened to become his entire vocation...
...careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July 7, it hit the bestseller lists in two weeks, headed them in two months and has stayed firmly on top ever since. Last week, with over 260,000 copies sold, it was moving over the counters at a 10,000-a-week clip...
...varsity was not no ever powering as the score indicates. It was a fairly dull match because the visitors offered real competition in only two classes (186 and 155) and because several of Batch Jordan's men, particularly Bob Claflin, looked uncertain at their new weights...