Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of such ideas. Elman, who has been in show business since he was six, already has one big network show, Hobby Lobby (CBS, Thurs., 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.), which has brought him $350,000 since 1937. (It features people with silly pastimes, such as inventing a pants-puller-upper, collecting baby elephant hairs, compiling unfunny jokes.) He has been trying to repeat Hobby's success ever since. Among his previous tries was one called Contact, about people who wanted to find long-lost friends or relatives. Elman said he got the idea while wondering what became...
...looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
...direct stroke from upper left to lower right was made first...
...stroke from lower left to upper right was made second...
...cowboys castrated a Mexican while a peace officer stood idly nearby. Elfego believed the law should be as strong as the lawless. One day, after he was made a deputy, he arrested a cowboy who shot his hat off. Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough to fix some tortillas and beef stew. When the battle ended, four cowboys were dead, many...