Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make its point, The Clearing House sent out copies of the old exam to teachers from York, Pa. to Fort Worth, Tex. It was a tough one; the school kids in Springfield, Mass, who took the examination 101 years ago averaged only 40.60% in spelling, 29.40% in math. In the past eight months 20-odd schools have given the tests. Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent. In math they scored 52.16% on such questions as this: "There is a certain number, one-third...
...build a show around a female singer, honey," says Georgia Gibbs. "Look at the way they axed Ginny and Dinah." But next week torchy Songstress Gibbs contradicts herself by stepping into a show, the first that has been tailored to her tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), alluringly tough measure. Georgia is the summer replacement for Eddie Cantor (NBC, Thurs. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T...
Fredda soon found that she was typed as "that fast-singing Lucky Strike girl." One day, after a tough stretch, she decided to remodel herself, shuck the Hit Parade mannerisms, get a new name and a new agent. It turned out that her lusty, slower-paced new-style singing was a good complement to radio's comedians. Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye. She practiced her comedy lines and learned to "get into the show." She also picked up some brassy publicity tricks...
Coulter knew that he had a tough job ahead to get the T.P. & W., which had been on its way to the junk heap, back in shape. "We've got it going now," said he last week. "But I feel that the railroad is still on the spot...
Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland...