Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already has one big network show, Hobby Lobby (CBS, Thurs., 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.), which has brought him $350,000 since 1937. (It features people with silly pastimes, such as inventing a pants-puller-upper, collecting baby elephant hairs, compiling unfunny jokes.) He has been trying to repeat Hobby's success ever since. Among his previous tries was one called Contact, about people who wanted to find long-lost friends or relatives. Elman said he got the idea while wondering what became of a girl who promised to marry him but failed to show up for the wedding...
President Conant did not discuss the development or potentialities of the atomic bomb in which he played a considerable part as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, nor did he repeat his opposition to compulsory training...
...When the girl spoke out of the darkness: "Don't I mean anything to you at all?" he could only say suddenly, "No, I guess you don't." And when they asked him in the Market Street bar what it was like out there, he could only repeat: "It was the wind...
...worth hearing twice. But last week, CBS for the fourth time in two years scheduled a tense 30-minute drama, Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorehead (CBS, Thurs., Sept. 6, 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.). CBS says it has had thousands of requests for this repeat. Repeat or no, it is radio's best half hour of thrills & chills...
back from China, winged into Washington, at the airport got a welcome-home kiss from his ex-secretary, Doreen Lonborg. News photographers who missed it and asked for a repeat performance had to settle for a snuggle...