Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nine O'Clock Jump...
...plays are mainly unpopular* in London-largely because of their subject, but partly because of their shortcomings. But sheer escape, sheer fluff and frivolity has not completely swamped the theater. Despite the terrific jump in productions, musicals have not multiplied: ten last season, ten this. Of three U.S. clicks in London, one-The Man Who Came to Dinner-is farce, but Claudia is semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill...
...lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces of Epigrampus Oscar Wilde. In Miami, Albert John Capone, younger brother of Scarface Al, changed his family's name to Rayola...
...past decade, but it is challenged by plastics. The venerable U.S. glass industry, according to George Pope MacNichol Jr., vice president of Libbey-Owens-Ford, is at a historic crossroads: it can either partially abdicate before the plastics industry, try to develop glass products superior to plastics, or jump into the manufacture of plastics itself. Libbey-Owens-Ford has jumped into plastics, but predicts that it will be a long time, if ever, before a plastic can be made which will advantageously equal the scratch-resistant surface of flat industrial glass or plate glass...
...Education figured that fully half of U.S. high schools were already teaching aeronautics. For small, remote schools that lacked teachers and texts, the University of Wisconsin started a correspondence course. Teachers, many of whom knew less about aviation than their pupils, hastened to bone up to keep one jump ahead. Macmillan's quickly sold out its first printing of the books (40,000), rushed a second. In Manhattan scores of students, too eager to wait until their schools supplied the books, descended on bookstores to buy their...