Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have just returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. My husband listed his occupation as "Radio and TV"-and nobody followed us. We saw the troops drilling, the homes of all the Trujillo relatives and the poverty. However, contrary to your report, no one fixed the slot machines or the gambling tables in our favor. As Americans we find the doctrine of dictatorship hard to take under any circumstances, but we could not help noticing that our own Puerto Rico was embroiled in a violent telephone strike, with communications cut by unthinking "free" citizens, who apparently only know...
...illness, which put him to taking things easy. "I'm not the chicken I was," said Winchell, who is 62. He is in a position to coast: he gets $1,200 a week from his parent paper, Hearst's New York Mirror, and additional income from his radio newscast, show-business appearances ($70,000 for two weeks in Las Vegas last year), and his column syndication-down to about 145 papers-keeps him in the 91% income tax bracket. The old lion has not only grown mild, but flabby ("I'm six pounds overweight right...
...Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly at times but was so popular and profitable that he managed to survive and thrive: Rohmer sold him to movies, radio and TV. A mystery himself, Rohmer avoided people, tinkered with spiritualism, in later years wearied of Fu. His last book on Fu (Emperor Fu Manchu) will appear posthumously, fulfilling a prophecy that Fu once whispered to Rohmer's inflamed imagination: "It is your belief that you have made...
...important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers, who engage in a mass wife beating when the wives ask the storekeeper to sell no more rum on credit...
Outside the sports world, Dean Hanford called for course reduction and fewer hour exams, the College held its first transoceanic radio debate with Oxford, and President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Soon to resign, Lowell could look back with pride on his record of educational innovation and reconstruction. Tutorials began to slowly increase contact of faculty member with student; the General Exams emphasized a carefully planned academic program of distribution and concentration; the House system helped to mold the "Old Harvard" into new patterns more suitable for the times; and the extensive building drive provided the room for growth...