Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your cover picture of Betty Hutton [TIME, April 24]: to the double-action Colt revolvers with swing-out cylinders have been added, by your otherwise careful artist, ejector slides from the single-action type of revolver. No such hand-gun as shown was ever made...
...songs with Frank Sinatra on Light-Up Time (weekdays, 7 p.m. E.D.T., NBC). Last week, with Sinatra suffering from a sore throat, Dorothy Kirsten took over as M.C. of the show. "I'm a long-hair with shorthair moments," she explains. "People forget that I learned how to swing before I learned the classics...
...week's end, after seven days' operation, Bon Marche was doing business at the rate of $10 million a year. Allison, who had only counted on $5 million, thought his gross might hit $20 million by the time the rest of Northgate is in full swing. By midsummer Northgate's five-block long, 48-ft.-wide "Miracle Mall" will be lined with 70-odd shops, a 1,468-seat theater and a four-story office building. Among the shops: J. J. Newberry, Firestone tires, and a C. & H. supermarket, the biggest in the state of Washington...
...ruler, who had a blonde Dutch wife, never showed much fondness for his jungle principality. At the parties which took up most of the little time he spent there, he added swing bands and imported whisky for the traditional tomtom beaters and veiled female attendants. His subjects, Chinese, Malays and Dyaks, regarded him as a stranger, whispered that he had none of the kekuatan adjaib (magical powers) of his ancestors...
Even so, the first-second-third-run booking system was just a foot in TV's door. Before the door could swing wide open to new full-length features, a way would have to be found to pay for them. Many Hollywoodians thought that the problem might eventually be solved either by a booking system similar to Levoy's or by something like the "pay as you see" Phonevision promoted by Zenith Radio's Eugene McDonald...