Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a concert of the works of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Oklahoma!, South Pacific) had set the summer attendance record at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Variety headlined: "R & H Have Arrived as Longhairs...
...Ridge Wood to the wire in front by three lengths. In spite of spectators' boos and an inquiry by track stewards (who found that no rule had been infringed) Ridge Wood's owner picked up $4,648 in prize money. Time: 5:13 4/5. World's record for the distance...
...such a lyric manner, did Fabre, one of the world's great entomologists, record the daily lives of insects: fired by devotion to his "dear friends," he could describe the horrid or the humdrum in paragraphs almost like fairy tales in their mystery and charm...
Cost-conscious ("I put a price tag on everything I do") and confident, he thinks that he can lick Curtiss-Wright's problems. Says he: "In a couple of years, my record will speak for itself...
...supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense: "It is not loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case, to the ideas of the National Association of Manufacturers. For the record - I am not loyal to many of their ideas. And I never will be." The council of Sweets's union, the Radio & Television Directors' Guild, unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "forced" resignation, because "a man's talent and ability should be the sole cri teria by which...