Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spotlight Revue (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Spike Jones and his ensemble...
...Spotlight on Track...
Track generally holds the spotlight in Olympic games and at this early date, coaches see two possible Crimson track candidates. Varsity weight man Sam Felton on performance rates as the better of the two. Felton hurls the discus as well as various other weights and this summer established himself as one of the best weightmen in the United States. After placing third in the IC4A hammer throw last spring Felton won the national Canadian championship and placed second in the national A.A.U. meet in Lincoln, Nebraska, this summer. Working under Varsity weight coach Ed Flanagan, he has been practicing...
Across the river, in Brooklyn, the Dodgers hopefully sold out all the reserved seats in Ebbets Field for the World Series, but had to postpone celebrating so long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...
...console the millions who could not see the show, radio's perennial wonder boy, Norman Corwin, turned a rosy spotlight on the proceedings with a new script entitled The Time Is Now! "What has the General Assembly in its two years done [about disarmament]?" shouted a voice of disembodied skepticism over the nation's loudspeakers. "What will it do?" The reply came in tones of ringing triumph: "The answer is-it is on the agenda...