Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forced to make do on a meager three pounds of potatoes a week during the long nights of rationing, patient Britons could find small comfort in the advice of the great epistler, but last week a clutch of lesser literary lights were doing their best to make up for Britain's lack of spuds with a bumper crop of digestible macaronics. Sample from the Evening Standard...
...Louis last week, the purse-pinched Browns sold, for an estimated $400,000 and 13 lesser-light players, six of their first-stringers-including their homer-hitting Shortstop Vern Stephens. Nobody was jailed. It is not an offense in the U.S. to own a bad team, nor to weaken it further in any way the management chooses. But some of the other American League owners talked as if it should be. President Dan Topping of the New York Yankees demanded an official investigation of the eighth-place Browns. Said he: "We do not want to see the American League become...
Berlioz: Romeo & Juliet Excerpts (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Berlioz' Romeo & Juliet is the kind of music that in lesser hands can sound merely bombastic; Toscanini gives it the care and excitement it deserves. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...news was ominous for lesser comics of the Morgan school: all the brash, postwar lads whose specialty is making fun of radio and its sponsors. Things looked far from bright for three of the most prominent members of the toss-it-away brand of comedy: 1) come January, the American Tobacco Co. will reportedly drop Jack Paar (TIME, Sept. 29); 2) Funnyman Robert Q. Lewis (TIME, June 23) is still a liability to CBS, with no sponsor after nearly seven months on the air as a sustainer; 3) Alan Young, the Canadian wit, after starring for over two years...
...Lesser restraints were asked for the other eight because, said Clark, to prevent these companies from acting jointly might discourage rather than promote competition. The Government was thereby forced to acknowledge what will probably be one of the strongest arguments against its case: the fact that many security issues nowadays are so huge that underwriters have to work together to sell them...