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Last week Wendell Willkie appeared to justify the miracle of his nomination at Philadelphia. With the gong ringing for the tenth round, with the wise guys yelling "Take him out!", with his defenses battered down, he got up off the canvas, and waded back in, trading punch for punch...
...radio producer the jitters. Performers wander around, often exchange quips with the studio audience. No "Applause" and "Silence" signs interfere with the fun at these clambakes. Studio spectators tolerate no interference with their right to cheer or boo. Like all Mexicans, they delight in amateur programs. Favorite among gong shows is one sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Ipana) which has been broadcast from XEW every Thursday night for five years. Presided over by a glum, bald, dead-pan wag named Julio Zetina, the Bristol-Myers program is riotously spontaneous, with everyone from studio technicians to station announcers taking part...
...last week, while a languid Stock Exchange waited for the closing gong of another disappointing day, Big Steel's directors wound up another monthly meeting, went back to their offices. Fourteen minutes after the Stock Exchange had closed, the news came over the ticker: Steel had declared a $1 dividend on its common, its first since the fat days of 1937. It was also its first to be declared at a monthly meeting, and without forewarning rumors, in 23 years...
...abdominal exerciser equipped with a gong which rings when the wearer is breathing properly...
...traditional standards are to be preserved, the hard-hit Departments must make full use of their hard-won privilege. The Faculty Dean's report may have sounded the final gong on the tenure fight, but there still has been no pay-off. To use a phrase of Dean Ferguson's the matter of the frozen associate professorships is still "unfinished business...