Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want all hell to break loose!" bellowed Impresario Leon Leonidoff one morning last week in the rehearsal gloom of Manhattan's cavernous Radio City Music Hall. By the time the Russian accent had floated up to the stage, about half a block away, things had begun...
When a layman drops in at the Harvard College Observatory and wants to know about the equipment, he is usually told: "Ask Mr. Campbell." In his 50 years at the observatory, white-thatched Leon Campbell has made his reputation largely through his work with interested amateurs. In fact, he himself got into astronomy by being an interested amateur...
...college. But he had so much enthusiasm for astronomy that when he was offered a job as "dome assistant" at the observatory a year later (1899), he jumped at the chance. It was a sort of clerk's job, calling for long hours of jotting down star observations. Leon Campbell soon impressed his superiors with his independent work, and in 1905 he was made a regular member of the observatory staff...
...Last week's 2½hour inaugural broadcast from the stage of Carnegie Hall saw WFDR off to a razzle-dazzle start. Congratulatory messages came from India's Pandit Nehru and Chile's President Gonzalez Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented by RCA's David Sarnoff, the Armed Forces by General Walter Bedell Smith, Government by FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock and New York City...
...Schenectady Avenue. Brooklyn; Samuel J. Tilden High School, Weisz, George of 958 East 48th Street, Brooklyn; Samuel J. Tilden High School. Jurkowitz, Lawrence of 121-21 14 Avenue, College Point; Flushing High School. Flegenhelmer, Walter Victor of 100-07 70 Avenue. Forest Hills: Forest Hills High School. Tucker, George Leon of 144-31 68 Road, Flushing; Flushing Hills High School...