Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show's best means of support...
...telephone man has installed 66,600,000 phones, more than half of the 117,800,000 in the world. Each day in the U.S., 245 million telephone conversations hum over the wires, more than 500 calls a year for every person. At any second of the business day, more than 2,000,000 people are talking on U.S. phones. What do they talk about...
...California's mountain-bordered Central Valley, a green, 450-mile finger veined by rivers and stretching half the length of the state, nothing buzzes quite so persistently as the Bees. Last week the industrious hum of the three Bee papers (combined circulation 284,755), issuing from hives in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, rose louder than ever. For the first time in its 102 years of publication, the Sacramento Bee came out with a Sunday edition...
...Scary." Times have changed since the days when C.K. helped sweep California government free of railroad domination and armed his reporters to cover the Ku Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans...
...continual hum of the CRIMSON newsroom is in no small way produced by the candidates for the news board. Neither drones nor "heelers," this group is usually at work turning out stories for the front page and the sports page or writing headlines that...