Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missing Guest. Just before midnight Kieran rose to announce that two men had tied with marks of 85. There would be another quiz to determine the winner. One nervous man-black-haired Lester B. Stone, onetime executive secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-showed up on the stage. The second contender-plump, wealthy William Rogers Coe, banker and vice president of the Virginian Railway Co.-had given the whole thing up, was found across the street visiting some pals at LaRue's Restaurant...
...Guest Conductor George Szell (pronounced Sell) had really sold himself. When he led the Cleveland Orchestra in December the house was jammed, the audience thundered applause, and the Cleveland critics raved. Last week Cleveland signed Conductor Szell to a three-year contract-on his own terms. His salary: more than $30,000 a year, the largest ever paid to a Cleveland conductor...
...calling attention to her brass-trumpet voice, her buck teeth and her knobby arms & legs, Cass Daley last week became radio's most popular comedienne.* The Fitch Co. is busy revising its Sunday night show (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) to play up Cass, play down the guest orchestras...
...disagreed with it on parking meters. Now it is thumping away at an airport for feeder lines, a war memorial. It still puts out a lively, fortnightly tabloid, with pinups, for local boys overseas. Executive Editor Ken Goodrich prods news out of 19 rural correspondents, runs locally-written guest editorials. His five full-time staffers write on copy paper of different colors, so that he can tell at a glance who wrote what...
...plans for staying there. These include a nonprofit repertory theater that will stage both new plays and revivals, an experimental theater that will serve as a "showcase" for new talent, and a children's theater. The repertory theater will have its own acting company, but will hire special guest stars for each production. Managing Director of Theatre Inc. is Actress Lawrence's husband, Producer Richard Aldrich (Margin for Error, My Dear Children...