Word: roster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hired on the spot. All over Europe, and especially in Germany, young American singers are singing for European audiences, hoping to follow in the paths of such Europe-polished Americans as Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, Contralto Jean Madeira and Bass-Baritone George London to the roster of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...three services. But it was primarily a Navy show. Of the 22 reporters, researchers, writers and editors in twelve TIME Inc. bureaus at home and abroad who worked directly on the story and color layout, nine were former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps. The roster: Edward Cerf, Louis Banks, Champ Clark. Cranston Jones, Alvin Josephy, Tom Lambert, Curtis Prendergast, Robert Ajemian and Clay Blair...
...doubles, the teams of Harris-Junta, Heckscher-Place, Gottlieb-Fischer, Gravem-Kay, and Krough-Nickols all won as Coach Jack Barnaby continued to find a wealth of doubles combinations scattered throughout his roster...
Sudsy Sagas. CBS made daytime TV drearier than usual by adding two new 30-minute soap operas to its already numbing roster. Like all sudsy sagas, these two have portentous titles (As the World Turns and The Edge of Night), vibrant organ "stings" at emotional moments, and time-consuming dialogue ("Penny, sometimes I don't get you." Penny, after a longish pause: "Sometimes I don't get myself"). Much of the nighttime drama was equally soapy. Robert Montgomery Presents featured Henry Jones as a lack-wit garage mechanic who first fails in an attempt to murder his wife...
...display considerable versatility. Jo Sullivan, as Rosabella the sometime bride, is rather shrill in attempting to combine vivacity with shame. Morley Meredith, the well-meaning, and over-masculine hired hand, is strapping, restless, and insensitive, as he should be. The strength of the cast comes mostly from a huge roster of chorus and incidental players, all in good voice and enthusiasm...