Word: levant
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...E.W.T.) for its new sponsor: Heinz (57 varieties). First guest for the picklemaker was wry, omniscient Fred Allen. He was very funny. He answered every query he could get his rasping voice on and, substituting for Questioner Clifton Fadiman in the second half, he stumped Experts Fadiman, Kieran, Levant and Adams with quotations from Philosophers Spencer, Kant and Hegel...
Gruff F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams) opened his mouth, beat out a section of the William Tell overture on his teeth with a pencil. Rumpled John Kieran murmuring "where do you find the bass?" tremoloed Sleepy Hills of Tennessee on a borrowed accordion. Oscar Levant, somewhat nervous, sashayed through a couple of Gershwin preludes on the piano. Clifton Fadiman played pitchman...
...Black Death abated. But in 1661 it again began to sweep in from the Levant. In 1664 Diarist Samuel Pepys "heard little noise day or night but tolling of bells"; some 69,000 Londoners died. Once more the plague retreated, nation by nation, year by year, into Asia...
Born. To Actress June Gale, 27, and Musical Know-It-All Oscar Levant (Information Please), 35; their second daughter, Lorna; weight, 6 lb. 10 oz.; in Manhattan...
...imminent in days, or possibly even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East Air Force. Thus India...