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Like newsmen, editorialists must have a nose for news, but critical suiffs and eyebrow-raisings are an indispensable adjunet. Art and music columnists will turn in one verve-packed account of first-night visits regularly every week...
...famous Berlin newscaster, William L. Shirer, has had no successor in the art of wafting a lifted eyebrow on the air. But until Nazi armies got mired in Russia the job of broadcasting from Berlin, though it took gall and patience, could be honorably carried out. After CBS got tough last summer (TIME, July 28), it even seemed that Berlin would relax its clamp, at least on "color broadcasts." Instead, the personal war of nerves between radio correspondents and censors grew bitterer...
Permit us at the same time to raise a meteorological eyebrow at your phrase "the Weather Bureau's . . dry warning...
...want to act with Tracy," she said but before more than an eyebrow could be raised, "because he acts from within. Muni has the same quality." Miss Robson is going to play Ma Baxter in "The Yearling," opposite Tracy this Spring...
...years gone by, early July tournaments such as these caused only a raised eyebrow among U. S. tennis fans. Last week, however, with America's top-notch amateurs competing at home instead of at Wimbledon, the tennis world watched with interest. Most eyes were on North Conway. For the Gold Racquet tournament-inaugurated last year by Manhattan Banker Harvey D. Gibson to publicize his native village as a summer as well as a winter resort-has already become an important event on the U. S. tennis calendar. On display at North Conway was 20-year-old Frank Kovacs...