Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, when nightspot managers around the U.S. were hiring a little-known Negro singer named Billy Eckstine, they tagged him with such labels as "The Sepia Sinatra" and "The Bronze Balladeer" to help lure customers in. Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...
...over yet. Still out on Medinah's tough, narrow-waisted fairways, and needing only even pars to tie Middlecoff was Sam Snead. The grapevine buzzed that Snead was hot. "He's burning up that last nine," snapped Middlecoff nervously. "I'm betting I won't win. I'll bet you $10 right now that Snead ties me or beats me." Somebody took...
...fifth time, and Lord-satisfied with its format-has turned it over to ex-Movie Director Ed Sutherland, who will run it for NBC. Heading north to his 3,000-acre island off Mt. Desert in Maine, Lord carried with him the idea for another TV show. "I'm going to call it Sidewalks of New York," he said. "It might open just showing people's feet as they walk along, or maybe just their heads. And I'll show reflections of people's faces in store windows. It'll be an artistic thing. Like...
...railroad. He expects Pennsy's 1949 freight volume to fall 15% behind 1948, but anticipates better things by the end of 1950. He will not be president for long after that. Railroaders guessed he will be moved up when Clement leaves the chairmanship and Operating Vice President James M. Symes (rhymes with whims), 51, will take over the throttle. An up-from-the-ranks man also, Jim Symes has great visions of the Pennsy's future, once hopefully proclaimed: "The railroads have a potential travel market that requires only tapping...
...whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie's tenderness and Robert Louis Stevenson's romance flocked after a new hero who could give them the illusion of a jovial literary know-it-all in the midst of the noisy, shimmying Jazz...