Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio show was developed from his act in the current Broadway hit, Inside U.S.A. Shriner was originally hired to do a five-minute monologue, but, in the half-year run of U.S.A., he has gradually edged his monologue up to a high of 18 minutes. "I'm kind of long-winded," he admits...
...press conference called to explain his actions, Rocky gave a convincing demonstration of a man who didn't know what hit him. Why had he quit training? "I had no ambition to throw punches. I'm boxing a couple of salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every...
...couldn't exist without Sagen-dorph and his staff, "may forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen...
After weeks of mediation by James M. Landis, former Civil Aeronautics Board chairman, the Air Line Pilots Association last week ended its ten-month-old strike against National Airlines. The striking pilots went back to work with the same seniority they had at the time of the walkout. No provision was made for the nonunion pilots National had hired to fly its planes during the strike. With the strike settled, National still had to face a CAB hearing (TIME, Oct.11) next January, called to consider revocation of National's route franchises...
Beginner. In The Bronx, Pickpocket Plunk Williams confessed to police that he was only an apprentice, that two experienced friends had tried to teach him but "I'm a poor pupil. I fumble every time...