Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singles play the Crimson completely outclassed the less experienced Eagles, as Bud Ager, Captain Ted Bullard, Charlie Ames, Hilliard Hughes, Jack Frey, and Jay Robb put a quick finish to the competition. Ames, Hughes, and Frey won their two-set matches without dropping a single game...
Conant took a quick shot at the Chemical business. He returned to the University for his Ph.D. and "he has remained there ever since." The choice of Conant for President by the Corporation in 1933 is also described. "The story is that Conant...spoke so eloquently of a friend's qualifications that the committee was given seriously to think of...him. It was the old New England story again, of the courtship of Myles Standish...the Corporation indicated that it would be interested in hearing further from Conant in his own behalf...
...feelies-movies in which audiences could not only hear and see, but feel the clinches-were a major diversion in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the Utopian state where people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of "pregnancy substitute." The only utopia currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look...
Whimsy & Logic. Her passion for music as entertainment's lowest common denominator extends to public service programs. Many of WNEW's awards have been won by plugging good causes with jingles and catchy tunes. "Lull them with music," says Tudie Judis, "and then nail them with something quick about the charity...
Horns & Hats. None of the 40 musicians of the Cannes Municipal Orchestra had ever played a single note of modern American symphonic music; even though Conductor Horenstein found his players "quick-witted and adaptable," he still had to rehearse them three times a day, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. He had waited until the day before the concert for his score of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to arrive, finally had to phone the U.S. embassy in Paris to borrow another and have it flown down. There were no mutes for the trumpets; he had to borrow felt...