Word: swart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under swart, smart General Manager Fred Weber, onetime assistant to NBC's Niles Trammell in Chicago, Mutual has moved steadily ahead. From a two-station chain in 1934, it has grown until today it includes 173 affiliates. In the first eight months of 1940, its cumulative billings were $2,494,370; for the same period this year $4,024,680 (as compared with...
Already set up in the capital at Kaunas is a government of five Lith puppets headed by husky, swart Kazys Skirpa, 46, Lithuania's former envoy to Berlin...
...glorify differently are sultry Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr), who discovers that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does not spare her uncanny physical charms...
...museums, which lately got some sharp criticism from New York City's Park Commissioner Robert Moses (TIME, March 10), last week caught another egg squarely on the ear. The egg was hurled with a will by tough, swart little Missouri Painter Thomas Hart Benton. Growled he: the average museum was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait. ... Do you want to know what's the matter with the art business in America? It's the third sex and the museums. Even in Missouri we're full...
...week: repetition of an earlier "music-box opera," based on the ballad Clementine. The week after: a musical setting of a letter from an angry radio listener, and (not by Mr. Bennett) a 45-second song based on a phrase from TIME. The phrase: "slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma...