Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much in Demand. Recently Roberta has been arranging her tours so that she is never away from home more than six weeks at a time-her husband Don, now a semi-invalid, looks out for the boys and answers all of Roberta's correspondence from their Florida home. She is working hard because, she says, "I'd like to pay off the debts and get something put aside." Roberta proved such a hit with women viewers when she appeared recently on Ed Murrow's Person to Person that there is talk of signing her for a daily...
...final four debate rounds will be held in the Lamont Forum Room at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. this morning and at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. They will be followed by the impromptu semi-finals...
Time trials for the 50-yard freestyle and the one-meter diving preliminaries will be run off this morning at 10; 200-yard butterfly time trials, semi-finals in the 50-free, 200-yard backstroke trials, 220-yard freestyle trials, 100-yard breast-stroke trials, one-meter diving qualifiers exhibition, 200-yard individual medley trials, 400-yard freestyle relay trials will be held this afternoon beginning at 2:30. The finals in all these events will be run off tonight, beginning...
Kadar has succeeded in suppressing all active resistance by ruthless use of the secret police, reconstituted under the command of Colonel Laszlo Matyas, strengthened by Hungarian army officers, but still basically made up of the old semi-moronic AVH professionals. The sadists of 60 Stalin Ut (old AVH headquarters) are busier than ever, helped out at a Buda jail by the Russian MVD, which has its own interrogation procedure for VIPs. Scores of Freedom Fighters, including youths and girls, have been brought before summary courts and sentenced to hanging-slow strangulation, old Magyar style...
...this show, to be sure, there are the required number of stately showgirls with whole gardens in their hair, the remembered number of semi-nudes descending the staircase. And as of yore, the flesh is willing; but the spirit is weak. The spirit, in fact, has just about vanished. The songs have no lilt, the lyrics no verve, the sketches no crackle. The dancing has its bits of color and movement, but never the slightest distinction. In such feckless fandangos, the better performers-Billy De Wolfe, Harold Lang and Helen Wood-are largely wasted, while most other performers only make...