Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard rains slashed in horizontal sheets across St. Louis one night last week, and radio stations dutifully carried the Weather Bureau's heavy-thunderstorm warnings. The weather was still foul when the city went to bed. Two hours-past midnight, it worsened destructively. Without warning, a tornado, bad weather's traveling explosion, roared down upon the town...
Striking about four miles from the city limits, it damaged eight homes, toppled KXLW's 385-ft. radio transmitting antenna. With the heavy, rushing sound of a thundering locomotive, it rolled into the city, tossed KTVI's 575-ft. TV tower across the roofs of two apartment buildings, crushed the second floor of a four-family house, ripped off part of the roof of a sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years...
...about installing a new transformer for the small, 30-house village of Carlecotes (pop. 105). When the current was turned on, it lasted exactly 50 seconds. In that time, 72 light bulbs burst in their sockets. Three village street lamps blazed like searchlights and then burned out. TV and radio sets smoked like burning leaves. Electric motors for milking machines and a bottling plant sizzled. Water heaters exploded. The fireworks over, Carlecotes was plunged back into darkness...
After nearly three years of widowhood, Comedienne Portland Hoffa, 54, professionally zany co-player in Allen's Alley with her late husband, radio's raspy Satirist Fred Allen, announced that she would be married this week to an old friend. Adman and sometime Bandleader Joe Rines, 56, in the same actors' chapel where Chorine Hoffa and Vaudevillian Allen were married 32 years ago-St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan's West Side...
...Tell the old man you're sick of staying at home. Get out on the town. Enjoy music, live music!" So bubbled Jackie Gleason, the Brooklyn boulevardier, on TV and radio last week, seconded by Jimmy Durante and Judy Holliday. In English, Spanish, Yiddish and Italian, 19 New-York newspapers were sprinkled with a dozen other catchy ads. Sample: a migraine victim with arrows piercing his skull and the caption. "Cure for short temper, nagging headache, shattered nerves, daily depression-Get Live Music...