Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In radio's fiercely fought Battle of Sunday Night, CBS seemed to be winning over rival NBC. In every time segment from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to last week's Hooperatings, CBS had piled up a commanding lead. Jack Benny, moving from NBC to CBS...
¶Mr. & Mrs. Melvin F. Jones of Tampa proudly announced that they had completed a two-story house with their own hands after nine years of hard work. Both are blind.
When shaggy-maned Jimmy Conzelman coached football at Washington University (St. Louis), he frowned on slugging. Never a man to pass up the deadpanned crack, he explained: "I found biting to be more effective." In after-dinner speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he...
¶On modernized production: "Oscar Hammerstein II did a splendid job in modernizing Bizet's Carmen . . . Even so, is there a single opera fan who would attend more than one or two performances of Carmen Jones?"
The New Haven institution has established a four-man department under Professor Stephen Jones. One associate professor, one assistant professor, and an instructor complete the faculty roster.