Word: ts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). British Soprano Maggie Teyte sings Oft in the Stilly Night, Tchaikovsky's Adieu, Foréts, Faure's La Lime Blanche Luit dans les Bois...
Traffic safety is a subject which most newspapers regard as worthy but unexciting. But it has long been a favorite topic in the New York Daily News. For nine years Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor has drawn a macabre series of traffic don'ts called Inviting the Undertaker. The subject was closer than ever to Publisher Joseph M. Patterson's heart after the Sunday afternoon in 1939 when his brilliant managing editor, Harvey Deuell, suffered a heart attack while driving to work, swerved his car into a cable fence and was killed...
...devoted to children's shows (5:30 p.m. E.D.S.T.). The first discussion urged parents to answer their children's questions honestly, to provide early sex education without fairy tales. Some future topics: "Questions Children Ask and Don't Ask"; "Puppy Love: Dating Dos and Don'ts...
Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...
...Nagasaki-type bombs (which forward-looking scientists and the Air Forces now call primitive "Model Ts") would be exploded at Bikini: one in the air, the other on the surface of the lagoon. So far, the plans concerned chiefly the first bomb, scheduled to be dropped about May 15. No one knew what changes of plans would seem prudent before the second bomb exploded. In any case, promised Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, the test would not be rigged to favor the Army, the Navy or the bomb...