Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows...
...schedule for the 25 remaining performances promised none of the oldtime greats - like Bruno Walter, Lotte Lehmann, Max Reinhardt and Adolf Busch. Instead there would be Czech conductor Felix Prohaska; Rosl Schwaiger, s promising and pretty young blond Salzburg soprano; and Pfc. Gilbert Winkler, a 20-year-old calvary rifleman from New Jersey with piano talent. The only opera on this year's program is Mozart's II Seraglio; it is the only one that the Salzburgers could fit out fit a complete set of scenery...
...they are fitted with temporary prostheses. These are made of stock parts manufactured by commercial limb-makers and fitted by hastily-trained G.I.s. They often break down. The limb-makers say part of the trouble is the Army's insistence on using its own personnel as fitters, instead of civilian experts...
Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...
...Politely but firmly, U.S. Steel last week informed the Defense Plant Corp. that it would neither lease nor buy the Government-constructed $200 million Geneva steel works near Provo, Utah. Instead, Big Steel opened its campaign for the potentially lush Western market by earmarking $25 million for the expansion of its subsidiary, the Columbia Steel Co., of Pittsburg, California...