Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spread the Word. From his hotel window Menotti saw few patrons; the advance sale for The Medium (and for a short Menotti curtain raiser called The Telephone) came to just $47. For the first few weeks of the run most of the audience could have been taken home each night in a Broadway bus. And many of them turned out to be just the same old admirers coming back again...
...become, among other things, the weekly curtain raiser for the radio thriller, The FBI in Peace...
...Senators who need his approval for their pet projects. He badgered David Lilienthal because Lilienthal refused to load TVA with McKellar patronage, yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee and on the floor, has long been the meek and humble stooge of Tennessee's E. H. ("Boss") Crump...
Last week Austria's officials were again interested in Thorleif's features. As a grownup, onetime Cherub Capri had been appointed fund raiser for Austria's Orphans' Aid Society. He had got his hands as well as his face on 37,000 schillings' worth of banknotes and quietly absconded...