Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lahr and Dolores Gray; Decca, 2 sides LP). The tunes run second to the comedy in this current Broadway hit, but Lahr's wobbly voice in The Clown is worth the price of the album. Moreover, Songstress Gray can put over a song with vigor and charm; the proof is in There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby, If You Hadn't But You Did, How Will He Know...
...discredit an opponent was to take gun in Ford land shoot him. A miss was as good as a bull's-eye, for such was the popular temper that any attack created a presumption against the victim. To have inspired such a desperate attempt was held the surest proof that a politician had lost the confidence of the people...
...religion of Jarmo had probably changed to fit the agricultural life. In its ruins are no idols or magic pictures designed to improve the hunting. In their place are many female figurines, naked and obviously pregnant-proof that the' farmers and herdsmen of Jarmo had already developed a fertility cult...
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Richard Tucker, tenor; Lucine Amara, soprano; Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). More proof that Met performances are usually better to listen to than to look at-and that Richard Tucker is one of the notable tenors...
Kahn, who started a brassiere company after World War I with $1,500 in Army savings, has built it into a $40 million textile organization, Artistic Foundations, Inc., that turns out bathing suits (Sea Molds), piece goods (Kanmak) and girdles (Flexees). As proof that his 13 northern mills can compete with all comers, his company has signed up $42 million in Government orders, all won by competitive bidding. To keep up with-or ahead of-southern competitors, Kahn is putting the finishing touches on a ten-year, $8,000,000 program of expansion and modernization. This month he added...