Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Violinist Schima Kaufman, doubling as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The hard-boiled orchestra members, who have played for every sort of celebrity from Presidents down, melted at her graciousness...
...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
...sports shorts for Columbia Pictures. But he feels that the era of great announcers is at an end. "We used to be the public's eyes; now television is," said Stern. "The TV audience just wants a few words from us ... I'm going to try hard to fit into TV, but I'm sure I'll talk too much...
What's wrong with the airlines? They're too pampered. That is what hard-jawed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, president of profitable Eastern Air Lines Inc., told the Senate Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce last week...
...Happens Every Spring [20th-Century-Fox] is the kind of thing that happens only in the mind of a hard-pressed Hollywood gag writer. The gag is acted out by Ray Milland, a serious young chemistry instructor at a Midwest university who is also a serious baseball fan. One day, puttering with mysterious solutions in his laboratory, Milland accidentally hits upon a liquid mixture that repels wood. It takes the low-salaried chemist just a second longer than it takes he audience to see the possibilities of his wonderful compound. When the idea dawns, he skips out on his college...