Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This still left radio a studioful of George Fielding Eliots and H. V. Kal-tenborns, whose jobs were safe enough: radio intended to push out the smaller fry first, cut down on the number of news programs. Latest trend is to make the news painless. Mutual now has Marjorie and Royal Arch Gunnison, the husband-&-wife team who covered the Orient for the Christian Science Monitor, to chitchat the news on a show called Mr. & Mrs. Reporter (1 p.m., E.W.T.). ABC signed up the aging wonder boy Orson Welles. who wants to talk about Shirer's kind of subjects...
Last week it did. Radio rushed in where such popular angels as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans have tried to tread: to explain the Einstein theory of relativity. It also tried to make the instruction painless-and all in one half hour's time...
Laid off at a rate of 500 a week, they were absorbed easily; Boston's other war plants still called for 20,000 more. Of the yard's 2,702 women, 95% went back home, to get their breath. Watching this painless tapering-off process, manpower men wished it could be repeated when other war towns finish the production race. But there was small chance of that: Hingham was one industry that was closed down while others were still crying for help...
...sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared to welcome hordes of new converts. Their Pindamonhangaba center was deluged with requests for the painless professional services of ghostly Dr. Amaral...
Gerald Nye, 52, giving up the Senate seat in which North Dakota voters had kept him for 19 years, admitted: "I would be lacking completely in frankness were I to say that leaving . . . is painless. . . . Knowing that this might be the last time I will speak on this floor, there has been some temptation to make this . . . an 'I told you so' speech. . . . You see the gravity of the peril in which our foreign entanglements have involved us. . . . I am sure, knowing the power of British propaganda, that within 20 years-perhaps within ten years-we shall...