Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain is not even building high-altitude rockets, let alone space ships. But this practical detail does not bother the thriving organization of imaginative zealots called the British Interplanetary Society, whose purpose is "development of interplanetary exploration and communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil...
Organized as a cooperative like the Associated Press, the L.P.A. elected Rubin Levin of the Railway Brotherhoods' weekly Labor as president, and hired Irving Fagan as editor and general manager. Wiry, able Irv Fagan, a 20-year veteran of the newspaper business (the Philadelphia Record), heads a Washington staff of seven, a national staff of 15 part-time correspondents. The L.P.A.'s top byliner: Old Washington Hand Nathan Robertson (PM). Cost of the service: $2 to $15 a week...
...rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks a pint of milk before each show "as a sedative." Paul Muni once played his violin right up to curtain time "to soothe his nerves...
...band to play at football games." It was the fall of 1919--one year after the first war to end all wars. They played--45 men--most of them former army bandsmen. They sat right where the band will sit today, section 35. There's no record of how well they played, but perhaps that's all the better...
Lamar and Barclay will travel down to Princeton, where Brown meets the Tigers. The Bruins, one of New England's few undefeated teams, will be out to protect this record from the attacks of George Sella...