Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Hit Parade (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Frank Sinatra and Dorothy Kirsten...
Singing Octavian, the Marschallin's unripe lover, was not 27-year-old Contralto Bible's first operatic excursion in trousers: last year, she made the same kind of hit in her hurried debut as Cherubino in the City Center's fine production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. But she is beginning to hope it may be her last. She has sung the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Mercedes in Carmen, but feels that she still has to prove that she can also sing in skirts...
Sarnoff still had to find the exact spot on a human neck where the current would hit the "motor point" of the phrenic nerve. For this, his Swiss-born wife Charlotte (who is also his laboratory assistant) served as a human guinea pig. When they found the spot, after hours of probing her neck with the electrode, her diaphragm contracted forcefully and she took a gusset-popping deep breath. Dr. Sarnoff had proved his device. Last year, he and his team of coworkers* called in a manufacturer to make technical improvements in the machine and turn out a pilot model...
...walnut-paneled room in Washington, the Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury...
...Lion, distributor of Rank's The Red Shoes, has grossed more from its 40-week run in Philadelphia's Trans-Lux than from all its other pictures in Philadelphia theaters during the same period. Better still, less receipts have to be splurged on costly ballyhoo; a sureseater hit automatically woos the kind of audience that is eager to seek out a good film...