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Word: lows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Fifth Avenue (music by Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Tom Adair; sketches by Charles Sherman & Nat Hiken; produced by Arthur Lesser) is anything but Fifth Avenue-ish, and not often much credit to Broadway. An all-too-intimate revue, it bawls out brash ditties, features loud-colored, low-cut skits, winks its eye and wiggles its hips in such decorous Fifth Avenue spots as Washington Square and Rockefeller Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Died. Willie Howard (real name: William Levkowitz), 62, wizened, mop-haired stage comic who convulsed theatergoers for half a century with his low-comedy antics (best known routine: his characterization of Professor Pierre Ginsberg, a French language teacher); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. The son of a cantor, Vaudevillian Howard made his debut at twelve as a boy soprano, scored his big hits teamed with older brother Eugene in the Shuberts' Winter Garden revues and George White's Scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...four executive vice presidents would stand atop a marble staircase at the Waldorf to greet their guests and show their wares, on which they had spent a round $150 million for retooling. All of G.M.'s cars showed a drastic change either inside or out. They were so low and rakish that a small man could look over the top. They had wider seats (average front seat width: 62 inches), little change in wheelbases (but in some models shorter overall length), and were up an average of 3.5% in price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Within two hours after the suit was filed, A.T. & T. stock, long regarded as the Gibraltar of the securities world, dropped 1½ points on the New York Stock Exchange to 147¾, a new low for 1948-49, fell still lower next day to the lowest point in five years. A.T. & T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson seemed less shaken. Said he: "Western Electric has been a part of the Bell System for over 65 years ... I am sure that when all the facts are known, the existing arrangement will be found to be in the public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Biggest Target | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...also sounded a warning that any use of the basing-point system was likely to arouse its suspicions. FTC said it would suspect conspiracy whenever: 1) prices quoted by competing firms stayed uniform over any length of time, or were changed in concert; 2) competitors whose prices were unusually low were squeezed out or "disciplined" some other way; 3) companies habitually accepted a drop in sales rather than cut their prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: F.O.B. Is Better | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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