Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, insisted the athletic director, the purpose of amateur athletics is not to have an all-winning team but "to fit the athlete into college life." Washington claims it can afford to maintain this policy because, like Harvard, the university pays the grid deficit (about $20,000 annually) as part of its educational expenses...
Soprano Nadine Conner, scheduled to sing the role of Countrymaid Zerlina, had folded with food poisoning. Bing had to find a substitute fast. Roberta had memorized the role and, at 5 ft. 2 in., was a neat fit in Conner's costume. After an afternoon of cramming sessions with Stage Director Herbert Graf, Assistant Manager Max Rudolf and some final tips just an hour before curtain time from Conductor Fritz Reiner, Roberta was waved onstage. She turned out to be just about the only bright light in an otherwise lusterless performance...
...Manhattan, CBS regretfully canceled its scheduled network commercial colorcasts but, under an experimental license, went ahead with color demonstrations. The outstanding show this week featured Arthur Godfrey, wearing a carnation lei, strumming his ukulele and looking fit, freckled but not especially redhaired. Though the show was strictly noncommercial, Godfrey got in an adroit plug for one of his sponsors-Chesterfield...
...with an audience that barely vouchsafes it a nod. Playwright-Director-Actor-Master of Ceremonies Crabtree takes potshots at latecomers while offering pointers on the play; the stage manager struggles with the prompt book while actors add inserts to injury; the lights blow a fuse; an actress throws a fit...
...individual case is the question of freedom of the airwaves. Opponents of the F.C.C. say that it does not matter whether or not Richards ordered his employees to slaut the news, since a radio station should be as free as a newspaper to present the news as it sees fit. The only limitation on a publication, they maintain, should be the possibility of a libel suit...