Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, has gathered behind it a head of political steam. Its color sets have toured the U.S. The brilliantly colored pictures have been seen with enthusiasm by thousands of influential citizens who say: "We've seen color television with our own eyes. It's good. Why can't we have it in our own homes?" This week, with the hearings recessed, the FCCommissioners were holding their heads and trying to make up their minds...
Small-Town Boy. What had made 38-year-old Vaughn Monroe's outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
When he completes his three weeks of concerts in Chicago (where besides music by fellow Czechs Smetana and Janacek he will conduct Countryman Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony), Rafael will set out again. After an engagement as guest conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will head back to Europe for orchestra dates in Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that...
...Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during his 13-year tenure the Trinity Corp. reduced its debt substantially...
Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...