Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the TV version of Easy Aces is a filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself...
...Twin Cities, flanked by Republican Governor Luther Youngdahl and Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, Truman rolled through 21 miles of streets lined by 400,000 citizens (police estimate). Every school was out; there were bands, color guards, a 21-gun presidential salute. Truman stopped at the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, at the centennial exhibit at the historical society, at the College of St. Thomas...
...warning came too late. The P-38 hurtled into the passenger-jammed DC-4 with the split-second destructiveness of a huge explosive shell; its twin propellers chewed through the big plane with a shriek and its projectile impact broke the big plane's back. As the P-38 ricocheted off and plummeted into the river, the shattered transport flashed with fire and broke in two in midair...
...propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...
Helmut Furth '52 was elected president of the organization, and his 'twin brother, Worner Furth '52 was chosen secretary. Poter Rosenthal '52 will be treasurer...