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Most listeners thought they knew the singing-the pillow-soft pianissimos, the warm and velvety power even at full voice-even though at first some did not recognize the singer. In five months, tiny (4 ft. 8½ in.), once-tubby (201 lbs.) Dorothy Maynor had lost 72 pounds by rigorous dieting, slimmed down to a more curvaceous 129. But last week, as the first guest soloist on the NBC Symphony's new U.S. Steel-sponsored Summer Concert series, the little Negro soprano proved that great singing does not necessarily come by the pound...
...forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
...doctor asked the crowd to leave. As the last figures disappeared, Bill Yancey was hauled slowly up the shaft. In his arms was a small, blanketed form. Tenderly he laid the bundle on a white pillow in the back of a black car. In silence, the car rolled slowly past the derricks and the piled dirt, past the gaping hole and the steel casing, past the rows of exhausted, grimy workmen...
Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...
...chair he filled his pen and carefully lettered "Page One" on the upper let corner and "First" on the upper right, but no more, for another possibility crossed his mind. What if he should work through lunch? He set the alarm for noon and folded it under his pillow, then returned to the desk. "First Draft" he finished. He should note the time he started; getting out of his chair, he uncovered the alarm clock and noted the time, wound it tight and recovered it. Filling in the time, Vag thought a footnote was needed and moved down...