Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall, the Western Union land forces under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny will hold war games to show how well the Western Union landlubbers can work together...
Tobiansky admitted that at his superiors' request he had drawn up the list, which included hospitals, the newspaper Palestine Post, military establishments with radio installations. But Tobiansky pleaded that the list had merely been intended to show which electric current users were to have priority in case the city's power had to be curtailed. His Haganah superiors approved of the list...
...Brashest of the trio is Henry Morgan, 34, whose acid, uneven comedy has usually been based on his distaste for sponsors. Morgan, who will try anything, tried (and failed) this spring to do a TV show in addition to his sustaining radio program...
...Trunk. Bald, tubby Abe Burrows, 38, says worriedly, "I don't have the right background for show business-I wasn't born in a trunk." Brooklyn-raised, Burrows majored in Latin and accounting, got his first job in Wall Street ("I went right up the ladder: runner, board boy, bond salesman-and then I was fired"). A script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three...
...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...