Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports are Bob Stanton's specialty, and sports thus far are television's biggest attraction. Once, back in 1932, he had a brief fling at singing in a band (his onetime lyric tenor has now become a well-modulated announcer's baritone), but singing was "too much of a grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap...
Bolstered by an opening day's sales of more than $150 worth of automobiles, clothes, and records, Radditudes announced last night that auctioneer Anna Prince, Radcliffe '48, will again mount the huckster's stand today for a final fling at the pitchman...
Baccalaureate services at Memorial Church on Sunday will lead the procession of traditional events, followed by the Senior Spread on Monday, a last fling at College life featuring a dinner dance at one of the Houses. Tuesday will be a day of recuperation...
...three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case of incompatibility...
...hawg," bellowed: "We'll get a court of our own." Then, putting on his own boar-like dignity: "You know what MacArthur said -I shall return." Hummon just smiled. Within 15 minutes, he vacated the office -as he had said he would-and Georgia's 63-day fling at two-headed government was over...