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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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York on their TV set. The plotless show consisted entirely of Goodman's and Jane's comments on the film, of her misinterpretations of the obvious and his exasperated efforts to set her straight. In a typical gag, Ace says, wonderingly: "Imagine the Indians selling Manhattan for $24...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Homey Little Thing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Since the TV version of Easy Aces is a filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Homey Little Thing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

For the week starting Friday, Dec. 16. Times are E.S.T., subject to change.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Handsome Alfonso VIII of Castile was married to a haughty English princess named Eleanor of Aquitaine (sister of Richard the Lionhearted), but he tired of her and ran off to Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

As proof of his penitence, Alfonso transformed the royal summer palace at Burgos' Las Huelgas del Rey into a cloister administered by the white-robed Order of Cistercian nuns. The cloister, Alfonso decreed, would also be the burial site for the dead of the House of Castile; the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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