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...success as a name-band leader. First, there must be an "angel" who can be persuaded that the leader will click. Then there are hard months of rehearsing and harder months of trying out around the country. The immediate goal is a Manhattan booking with a big radio network hookup...
...Cabinet members and U.S. diplomats abroad to stay at their posts, keep away from the United Nations Conference in San Francisco.) Hearst's Chicago Herald-American promptly headlined: "F.D.R.-STAND BY FOR VICTORY." A Hollywood radio announcer, spicing it up a little more, breathlessly told a Blue Network hookup: "Electrifying news. . . . Official Washington thinks it will [come] momentarily...
There would be logic aplenty for such dealings. Eastern expects to operate a postwar route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone, northern terminus of Panagra, which operates down the Andean-wrinkled west coast of South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...
...factory-loaded plastic tube and tripod, weighing 35 Ibs. in all. A one-shot piece designed for close-range use, it is fired by dry-cell batteries, is replaced forthwith by a new barrel; the empty goes to the rear for a new loading. By a wire hookup, several M-12s can be fired at once by the same gunner...
...entered only in Nebraska, where it will have tough going; in Minnesota, where it will get a solid favorite-son delegation; and in Wisconsin.) Able young Senator Joe Ball led the Stassen invasion of Wisconsin. Joe Ball made a smashing impression in Madison, with a state hookup. But politicos wondered: how much personal liking for Joe Ball would be translated into votes for his candidate, 7,500 miles away at sea? Minnesota's 5-by-5 state G.O.P. chairman, Dr. R. C. Radabaugh, its Congressmen, Melvin J. Maas and Walter H. Judd, its Governor, Edward J. Thye, Stassen...