Word: prompter
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...official communiqué admitting the loss of the Wasp. But the hopeful impression got around that Navy's relatively fresh report about the Wasp (coming only 41 days after its loss) marked a new deal in Navy news. Bolstering that impression was the Navy's prompter announcement, within a week, of the loss of yet another (unnamed) carrier...
Brooklyn has never backed a professional hockey team (although a Brooklyn prompter in 1897 staged the first professional hockey game in the U.S.). Whether or not its citizens will get steamed up over a team that says "my heart belongs to Brooklyn," but plays its home games across the river in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, remains to be seen. Last year the orphan Americans finished last in the seven-team league. This may be Brooklyn's year in hockey as well as baseball, but after three games last week there was no indication...
...favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining, The Man on the Flying Trapeze. A strolling "prompter" was there to remind those who might weep. None did. Old Dode Fisk's last show...
...gave Manhattan's stodgy Metropolitan Museum $1,000 to buy photographs, the Metropolitan's board of trustees had to hold a meeting to decide whether photography was art. They finally decided that it was, accepted his gift. Cousin Nelson Rockefeller's Museum of Modern Art was prompter. About his own camera work, Camerarchivist McAlpin is shy. Says he: "It's mostly in the snapshot stage...
...following the lead of other collegiate polls, in the desire to represent its own opinions as those of the majority, the Student Union has forgotten its immense responsibility. The results of the poll will be hailed as "the voice of Harvard." But what value is the "voice" when the prompter has insinuated directions in every line...