Word: toeholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Television looked more & more promising. Some of last week's developments: ¶ The Theatre Guild got a well-pedicured toehold in the medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...
...week, the Americans came close to completing the first phase of their three-weeks-old offensive. The second phase-penetrations of the mud-ugly, coal-rich Saar River valley-had already begun this week. In one bold move the Americans seized a bridge across the Saar, got a first toehold in the Saar's Siegfried Line defenses...
Before the Marines and Army infantrymen had well secured their toehold on Saipan, in the Marianas, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran of Attu and Tarawa, was ashore with them. He radioed...
...Eighth had an easy time in Calabria only because the Germans did not fight there. They would have been there, fighting hard, if they had not had to prepare for landings farther north, and the Allies might be struggling for their first toehold on Italy's tip instead of holding the Salerno area and the Sorrento peninsula. 20 mi. below Naples. The fact that the Germans expected the landing at Salerno cut no military ice; they presumably knew that the Salerno beaches, about as far north as the Allies could land and still be within fighter cover from Sicily...
...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...