Word: warms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potato Seekers. On the Autobahn at the edge of Berlin, a young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade...
Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six inches from the mike. "On-the-air" is signaled, Lassie barks, the show...
Visiting the sets, Hedda is usually a better show than what is going on in front of the camera. She is a great crowd-pleaser. Her radio warm-up is one of the phenomena of the business. Her personality, italicized by her manic hats, stimulates the autograph hounds. They fawn on her at the studio gates. "Oh, g'wan with you," says Hedda brusquely. "I'm not a celebrity...
Died. James Melvin ("Jimmie") Lunceford, 45, topnotch Negro bandleader famed for his skillful and studied renditions of warm to hot jazz; of coronary occlusion; in Seaside...
...never easy. Every morning she got up with the sun, drove her 1938 Ford over dirt roads to the schoolhouse and lit a fire in the old stove. When her 15 pupils arrived-some on foot, some on horseback and some, in muddy weather, on tractors-the room was warm and clean; by that time Miss McKinney had swept and dusted the oiled pine floor...