Word: paced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patter & Pace. In the brief six weeks of its polished existence, the Revue has climbed to a 50.6 Hooperating (bettered only by TV's two top attractions, Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey). Last week, it earned the most solid accolade of all: its sponsor, the Admiral Corp. (radios, television sets, refrigerators), picked up the option for another six months. It was no small tab. The Revue is one of the costliest things of its kind ($25,000 a week...
...number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub and many theaters. Its smooth pace is interrupted only by a tedious five-minute commercial which not even the "muddle-talk" of old Radio Comedian Roy Atwell can speed...
When Russian-born Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky made San Francisco sit up and take notice a year ago with his blazing performance of Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), critics and music lovers wondered if he could keep up the pace. Fellow violinists said that Tossy had made the difficult Bartok concerto his own, but that playing the classic concertos might be a different story. Since then Tossy has proved that Bartok is just one well-done chapter in his concert book...
Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...
...Rumania, "poverty, unemployment and homelessness became the Jews' [fate] ... In 1948, the liquidation of Jewish civic, educational and cultural life took place at a rapid pace . . . There are no more Jewish schools, Jewish cultural groups, Jewish communities, Jewish organizations. A small, powerful Communist group reigns over the Jews in Rumania...