Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote to Detroit Free Press sports writer Tommy Devine, the most likely person with whom to argue his point...
...Darlin'," starts off promisingly enough. After the overture, a lantern slide of the cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small...
...Meet the Press (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guest: J. Howard McGrath...
...again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the "happily wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple...
...most vital link in the chain of command is the roof telephone. Since the coaches on the field can get only a very general idea of what's going right or wrong, backfield coach Steve Sebo is posted in the press box, with a direct wire leading to the bench...