Word: franke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis & Blanchard, Elizabeth Arden, Pauline Betz, Frank Leahy, Leo Durocher, Jake Kramer, Jackie Robinson, Bob Chappuis, Barbara Ann Scott, Eddie Arcaro, Mel Patton, Joe DiMaggio, Ben Hogan...
...Toscanini-trained musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...Northeastern first defense boasts the Husky captain Deke Korrivan and Frank Bell, both veterans of New England League play...
...Smith's frequent use of the phrase "off the record" gave a new boost to an old, and often helpful, journalistic practice. It permitted top Government officials to let down their hair before the press -without getting into trouble in the process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing...
Whatever happens, missionary boards will give missionaries every encouragement to stick it out-even if they should be forbidden to preach from their pulpits or teach in their schools. Said Dr. Frank T. Cartwright, China secretary of the Methodist Church's Division of Foreign Missions: "Some of the conservative boards may feel that doing mission work under the Communists is compromising with the Devil, but most of the larger boards feel that if we are allowed to teach Christianity, or even live a life of Christian witness alongside Communism, we would do it. We believe Christianity can stand...