Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen, Governor Tom explained that he was a guest and it would be discourteous if he said a single political word. He was simply an interested farmer (486 acres near Pawling, N.Y.). "Farming," said Tom Dewey, "has been the principal interest in my life for the last ten years." Trim and tanned (he had been getting in his hay, he said), he talked easily about the poor state of the corn crop, the merits of artificial insemination of cattle, and got his picture taken with a prize...
...Gotham a swarthy guest in white turban, striped flannel skirt and long, grey coat attracted some attention. He was mannerly, scholarly Sayed Saddiq El Mahdi, grandson of the famed Sudanese leader whose career came to an end at the hands of the British at Omdurman in 1898. Sayed was not strictly a delegate. He was in town to watch the Assembly handle Egypt's case. Some day his own state might be in the same fix. Meanwhile, he was prepared to enjoy himself. "Before we came," he told a reporter over a lemonade last week, "we thought America...
Comedian Fred Allen knows a lot about radio, but he doesn't always approve of the medium that gives him such a good living (TIME, April 7). Last week, in vacationing Critic John Crosby's syndicated column, Guest Critic Allen let fly at the "multiple forces [that] conspire to thwart" radio comedians. Sample Allen peeves...
...Guest Star: "... A temperamental Hollywood glamor girl. . . . Her agent demands that the guest star's last three pictures, Zombie in the Oven, Chuck Wagon Clarisse, and She Couldn't Say Maybe, be mentioned in the dialogue...
...center of serious music in Southern California. The orchestra had been without a conductor since Leopold Stokowski left this spring. Last week, apparently embarrassed by the variety-show tone of its 1947 season, the Bowl hired Eugene Ormandy as "principal conductor and musical adviser" for 1948. In a guest appearance last season, Ormandy got more out of the orchestra than anyone else was able to. Ormandy will still keep his winter job with the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he had also succeeded Stokowski), but his new contract calls for him to conduct at least 16 of the Bowl...