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...unfortunate Dunster had to wait a quarter-hour at the start of the game for their eleventh player to arrive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephants Run Over Bellboys, 13-0; Gold Coasters Edge Funsters, 6-0 | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...publicity has a tactful way of wording it: the TV show called Blues by Bargy appears "at various hours" during the week. Tall, limpid-eyed Singer-Pianist Jeanne Bargy, 27, describes her eight months with CBS more bluntly: "I'm a fillin. Whenever they have an odd quarter-hour or when someone is sick, they get in touch with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Fill-in | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...residents of the Houses, at least, the most familiar of these bells are high above Mt. Auburn Street in the campanile of St. Paul's Catholic Church. Connected to a huge, weight-operated mechanical clock, they sound the Westminster Chimes every quarter-hour from nine to seven o'clock and every hour at night. This set consists of three small 250-pounders which play the tune, plus one big bell which, mercifully for Adams House, is presently out of order and therefore muted. Given to the church by the Sisters and pupils of the parish church next door, they were...

Author: By A.r.g. Solmseen, | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

About two-thirds of radio families do not use their receivers during the average quarter-hour of the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Inattentive Audience | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

They paid off. Vic landed a quarter-hour on Manhattan's WHN, went into a full-network sustaining spot on Mutual. Then the late George Washington Hill snapped him up as an understudy to Andy Russell on the Hit Parade. Vic never sang on the show. "That Russell," he complains, "is the healthiest crooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Da Moan | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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