Word: graces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rover Come Over. In Milwaukee, when Grace Meyer told the court that husband William paid more attention to their dog than to her, she got her divorce; Bill got custody...
...Once the Duchess of Queensbury came to a Nash-managed dance wearing a white apron (contrary to the Nash rules). He untied the offending garment and flung it to a group of maids in waiting-with profound protestations of respect for Her Grace...
...having what the surprised musicians themselves called a "winter week." The iron-man stunt was giving Bobby (who, like all hot jazzmen, is an authority on hard times) some memorable paydays. ABC pays him $165 a week for a 40-hour week for 20 hours of actual playing. Grace Rongetti, Nick's widow, pays better than that, complaining only when Bobby gets tied up at the studio and has to send a substitute down...
There will be a month's grace period for complaints; on Sept. 10, FCC will either conduct hearings (if the squawks are loud enough) or else just put the rules into effect. Loopholes may develop later, but at first glance the FCC proposal looks tough for the easy-money shows...
Bolted motionless on a test stand, the little monster is not impressive. It has no coolly symmetrical propeller, no phalanx of cylinderheads, none of the hard geometrical grace of the conventional aircraft engine. Yet the unprepossessing turbojet engine has thrown the air designers into ecstatic confusion: nobody yet knows how fast the jet will enable man to fly, but the old speed ceilings are off. In their less guarded moments, sober designers talk of speeds so high that aircraft will glow like meteors...