Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent out to local stations over the air instead of over land-line circuits...
Giuseppe Verdi composed his most fettlesome opera, Falstaff, when he was nearing 80. Last week, white-fringed little Arturo Toscanini, who learned how to play some of Verdi's operas from the famed composer himself some 60 years ago, proved he still had the pep at 83 to conduct a fettlesome performance of Falstaff...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC and NBC-TV). Featherweight championship fight: Willie Pep v. France's Ray Famechon...
...friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean set: "At first I thought it was crazy. Then it kinda irritated me." He rearranged it, added some notes and a little pep & polish. Sample of the finished product...
...sell them. K-F's dealer organization, never first-rate, was in poor shape. Its 4,600 agencies had melted to 3,200, and hardly half of the survivors seemed to know how to sell. Edgar Kaiser had to find a way to pep up his dealers to match his cars...