Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then up rose Kentucky's cocky, talkative Happy Chandler, always ready to go a few rounds when the spotlight is on. Happy Chandler had appeared in the Senate ring, on occasion, as anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-New Deal. This time he was anti-rich folks. Cried he: "Mr...
Duke Ellington and his concert orchestra are scheduled to give a semi-classical program in Symphony Hall tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. The Duke, under the sponsorship of Spencer Fuller, will appear only once before leaving for a Carnegia Hall engagement. Though some of the Duke's former...
What Has Tommy Got? On one occasion Assistant Littell waited for three days to confer with Mr. Biddle. Just after he finally got in to see him, the phone rang "and Mr. Biddle's remarks were about like this: 'Hello, Tommy. No-you don't need to...
On more than one occasion Winston Churchill has paid his derisive respects to the strategy of "Corporal Hitler" by listing it among the Allies' greatest assets. Addressing the House of Commons last week, the Prime Minister soberly refrained from any such sarcasm-for, whatever the reason for Hitler'...
A Man in the House. Months before, Edwards had asked his studio audience a pointless query: "Is there a Mr. Wickel in the house?" The M.C. liked his little joke, repeated it, and in time it became a standard gag line. Then, on November 4, there was a Mr. Wickel...