Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever-popular Radcliffe teas, sponsored by the PBH Freshman Committee, are unique, as teas go, in that genuine Orange Pekoe, in cups with handles is served together with cream, sugar, and even a slice of lemon. Here, under afternoon lights, newcomers, shy or otherwise, will have an opportunity to meet incoming Radcliffe Freshmen and transfer students. The generally well-attended teas will be the first since February...
...Johnson. He started it all in 1932 when he set up a microphone in front of Houston's Rice Hotel and started to question passers-by while he threw in commercial plugs for a local clothing store. But now that audience shows are grabbing the biggest single slice of radio time, Parks Johnson, like many a listener, has his doubts about it all. Said he last week...
Transpacific air routes, once Pan American Airways' private pie, were sliced up last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, over Pan American's objections, handed a luscious slice to United Air Lines, which during the war flew some 5,000 flights between the U.S. and Hawaii for the Army. United got a San Francisco to Honolulu route paralleling Pan Am's. CAB picked United from the six applicants for the route because a majority of the travelers to Hawaii come from U.S. cities served by United. Thus United will be able to offer them single-carrier service...
...Lever radio shows (Rinso's Big Sister and Lifebuoy's Bob Burns program) are to be axed. Before he's done, Luckman plans to slice $5 million from the budget for radio, pay it out for newspaper and magazine advertising. The budget, now weighted 70% to 30% in radio's favor, will be balanced, 50-50. Where Lever leads, others often follow...
Open City. A raw, bloody slice of life in Rome under the Nazis (TIME, March...