Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick act, Commissioner Happy Chandler had done the seemingly impossible: he had made Leo Durocher a sympathetic figure...
...that score with some of the niftiest, take-a-chance razzle-dazzle ever seen in the radio game. When other networks feared to transcribe big nighttime shows, ABC risked it; last week ABC's transcribed Bing Crosby show got one of the top Hooperatings: 25.8. Last fall a quick-thinking young ABC executive jumped to the phone the moment he finished reading John Hersey's Hiroshima in the New Yorker, got exclusive broadcast privileges for ABC from the magazine. This week Hiroshima won ABC a Peabody Award (see below...
...hard-won vocal habits, learned to bleat so expensively that half a dozen of her consonants will now pay for all the singing lessons she ever took. At 25, she has developed as tricky a style and as tony a claque as any of those quick bright things called "songstresses." Last week Songstress Knight had clinched her success by beginning (at $2,000 a week) her biggest radio series, as Tony Martin's opposite attraction on his new Texaco show...
...advised that all "trifling" amounts be ignored.) The Detroit court agreed. So three weeks ago Lawyer Lamb appealed, starting the case up to the Supreme Court again. The Department of Justice, hoping that the Court would reverse itself and kill portal pay for good, obligingly asked for a quick hearing...
H.A.A. construction plans call for nine new clay courts just west of the Dillon Field House and two large batteries on the farther side of Soldiers Field. The former will occupy the site of the old Military Science stables, and the latter, constructed of a quick-drying asphalt mixture, will be on the site of the prewar grouping...