Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaders of the British Labor Party had been arguing about the best time for calling the general election, which must be held before next July. Devaluation of the pound (see INTERNATIONAL) settled it. The election would be held next spring, not this fall. As one Labor Minister said this week: "When you have to raise the price of bread, it is probably a good idea to give people time to forget...
...Paris, Mary Garden, 72, said that she would make a lecture tour in the U.S. this fall, her first trip back in 18 years. Her subjects: music, the opera, and singers. Said the onetime prima donna, whose hip-swinging versions of Thais and Salome still linger in the memories of old-time operagoers: "I will speak as I feel...
...minutes, a cascade of white smoke billowed out of a vent near the nose of the rocket, showing that the tanks were full. "This is a marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it doesn't go off promptly, run for the blockhouse. If it starts to topple, fall flat." Even the Glenn Martin men were pessimistic about this new-design Viking. "She's like a woman," one remarked. "There's nothing wrong with her . . . we just don't understand...
Phil Harris-Alice Faye (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Fall return...
...Look, Old Hat. The flood of such pictures in magazines and newspapers was strategically timed. It would coincide with the climax of the American woman's familiar rite, already well under way last week -the annual surrender to the fall fashions...