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...after sundown that the real Skiman works best, for he can combine his other talents with Skimanship...

Author: By G. JEROME W. goodman, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

...band, WXHR uses Frequency Modulation, which is static free and has a greater tone range. Moreover, WXHR is on the air during the evening from five to eleven o'clock. This means that WXHR has a wider "good music" audience than WBMS which was required to signoff at sundown and therefore was limited to the housewife group. Thornton also feels that FM listeners are more progressive and intelligent, and that night time FM can become a possible competitor to television...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/14/1951 | See Source »

...near sundown before the lottery was over, and Ente Sila's tired, bright-eyed Ezio Conti could show Amerigo his exact plot of land. They walked to a sandy path overhung with crumbling redstone cliffs. Below on the left stretched the land of Cuocino. With a tremor in his voice for the first time, Amerigo said: "It's somewhere down there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Bear Must Die | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...after the Bear Dance," he said. The audience shouted approvingly, "Hou! Hou!" Said another old man: "The land is worth more . . ." Then, after a pause, "Of course, I have some beer in my belly." The Indians retired to a grove of cottonwood trees to powwow. It was not until sundown, three days later, that the rest of the tribesmen outvoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Back Pay for the Utes | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...After sundown one evening, ten acres of adolescent humanity squatted in the outdoor arena where Washington's troops marched and shivered 173 years ago. There the Scouts heard Harry S. Truman, honorary president of the B.S.A. Korea-weary, Harry Truman scarcely had a chance to sip a glass of water during the speech, so quiet was his young audience. The President contrasted Nazi and Communist youth movements to the Scouts, stopped when flashes from freedom-loving Scouts' cameras popped too often. "Please stop those flashlights until I get through reading," he said. "They blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Valley Forge: 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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