Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea to WOR and Mutual. The Van Deventers had played the old parlor game-also known as "Twenty Questions"-for years; it had been a favorite of Fred's since he played it as a boy in Indiana. Mutual gave it a try, with the Van Deventers (minus Nancy, who had to go back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual, Sat., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) got its usual 10,000 to 12,000 fan letters...
Laurence Olivier & wife Vivien Leigh hopped home to England from Manhattan -in fits & starts. First stop: Windham, Conn., where their giant four-motored Constellation, minus a motor dropped on the Connecticut countryside, was skillfully crash-landed in a 3,000-foot belly-skid. Declared Olivier: ". . . None of us was frightened at all." Seven hours later, 41 of the 42 passengers-all but a thoughtful Catholic priest-tried it again in another plane, and made...
...continental areas such as the U.S. and Russia are too great for immediate knock-out blows. A surprised but still surviving nation with atomic stockpiles could in its turn destroy the aggressor's cities and industries. After the first heavy devastation, both sides would have to fight minus most of their production; the war might well degenerate into a long stalemate with neither side able to launch a successful long-distance invasion...
Last week in London, ABCA (now minus the A for Army) had set out to make the citizen as well informed as the soldier was. BCA's boss was husky, soft-spoken William Emrys Williams, 49, the Welshman who ran ABCA. All ten of the young Army officers (now "demobbed") who turned out the Army leaflets, plus five other veterans, were at work on new ones, on topics ranging from the rising British airways to the falling British birthrate. The first (just out): Food and Famine...
Twelve percent of U.S. marriages unite Rh-plus men and Rh-minus women, but only one out of 18 such marriages develops trouble due to Rh incompatibilities...