Word: turnabout
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...kind of turnabout of his 1938 invasion of Carnegie Hall, he does a classical disc-jockey program for Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...
Comedienne Elsa Lanchester was between movies. Moreover, she was on three months' vacation from Los Angeles' popular Turnabout Theater, where she has reigned as revue queen for the past nine years (TIME, May 24, 1948). Husband Charles Laughton was off on a three-month tour reciting Shakespeare and the Bible. What should Elsa do with the time on her hands? A Hollywood promoter solved the problem for her. Last week, red-haired Elsa was making her first try as a chanteuse in the top-tab Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
...turnabout was caused by an impending worldwide cotton shortage-and the leanest U.S. cotton crop in four years. Bugs, bad weather and the cut in acreage allotments under the support program had slashed the U.S. crop this year to an estimated 9,869,000 bales from 16,128,000 bales in 1949. Brannan hoped that production could be stepped up again to 16 million bales in 1951. But wiping out controls removed only one obstacle; there were plenty more...
People on the moon will be unable to see the sun at 8:30 p.m. (earth time) tonight. Similarly, people on the earth will not be able to see the moon at that time. Turnabout is fair play, of course...
...Turnabout. Doctors in general agreed with this indictment, but individually did little at first to prosecute their case. This they left to the American Medical Association. Once (during World War I), the A.M.A. had favored compulsory, health insurance. But during Dr. Morris Fishbein's long (1924-49) and bellicose editorship of the A.M.A.'s Journal, the tune changed. Though Republican Ray Lyman Wilbur was an M.D. and a past president of the A.M.A., his committee's 1932 report was denounced by Fishbein as "socialism and communism." Under Fishbein's leadership, the A.M.A. at first also opposed...