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Word: lib (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following fall, Al Jolson, between recorded songs in Warner's The Jazz Singer, did some ad-lib talking: "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks. Listen to this." Audiences were enchanted. After Warner's 1928 Lights of New York, the first all-talking feature, more than a thousand movie theaters throughout the U.S. hastily wired for sound. So did every major Hollywood studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cut-Rate Dreams | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...E.D.S.T.), also proves that she knows how to make people talk on the air. This 14-month-old show follows the same unrehearsed technique, pitting fast talkers like Henry Morgan against four career girls. Questions submitted by listeners, mostly about love and marriage, set off a series of ad-lib crackers. Example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Know-How Woman | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Elaine and her fellow black marketeers will be barred forever from French universities. Functionary Houel last week faced a possible five-year prison term. Cried Le Parisien Libéré: "A grave symptom of moral rottenness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exams for Sale | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Meet the Press (Fri. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Three Washington newspapermen work on Ohio's Senator Robert Taft in one of radio's steadily best ad-lib forums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Every Saturday morning, Herson plants a WRC microphone on some Congressman's breakfast table, gives & takes an ad-lib chatter over ham & eggs. The only rule: no politics. Beyond that, Senators and Representatives and their families discuss every subject that should be aired and some that shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee with Congress | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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