Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competing with the aircraft motors, on the guest speakers' platform, beginning at 8:15 o'clock, will be Lieutenant-Governor Arthur W. Coolidge; Linus Towers, executive vice president of the Yankee Network; Rear-Admiral Morton Dayo; Major General Horace McBridge; S. Murray Forbes, Wellesley trustoo; and star Jane Cowl...
...guests ate their way through shrimp cocktail, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, mixed vegetables, coffee, before the confusion* began to clear a little. A Congressman noticed a tiny typewritten card almost hidden by the roses. He nudged the guest on his left. The nudging passed around the table like a ripple. The luncheon was in honor of the stranger, Sir Frederick Bain, no G-man, but president of the Federation of British Industries, which represents about 80% of British manufacturing...
Fresh from England, as a guest on the Bob Hope radio show, she had caught the easy-to-catch but hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until...
Last week, kindly, bustling Max Reiter was back in Manhattan as guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
Hotbed. In Philadelphia, firemen burst into a hotel room to rip a blazing mattress from under sound-asleep William O'Toole, 45 minutes later found the mattress ablaze again, Guest O'Toole again blissfully sleeping...