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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisan Primo Camera, after killing dozens of Germans, was executed by the Nazis. Last fall, hale & hearty, non-Partisan Camera broadcast over Stern's show. Another time they heard that Abraham Lincoln's dying words, breathed to Colonel Abner Doubleday, inspired him to invent baseball, and that Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: More Lateral than Literal | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Juanita was getting ready as far back as she can remember. Her grandmother landed her first part, the role of the Christ child in a Christmas play: "Grandmother was religious enough, but it took a theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Over the years his devoted listeners have heard amazing stories, described by Stern as "profiles and portraits for posterity." During the war he told them how

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: More Lateral than Literal | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

His critics complain that Stern's casualness about facts sometimes carries over into his straight announcing chores. At one Notre Dame football game Stern announced that a player named Zilly was off on an 80-yard run. As the ball carrier passed the five-yard line, Stern discovered that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: More Lateral than Literal | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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