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Word: websters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice in Wonderland (Sun. 4 p.m., Mutual). With Eva Le Gallienne, Margaret Webster, Bambi Linn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

This disc jockey, Kurt Webster of radio station WBT, has done a job other jockeys have dreamed of for years-not only reviving a tune but an entire orchestra. . . . Webster plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Died. Ben Webster, 82, longtime Shakespearean actor, onetime leading man to Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, husband of veteran stage & screen Actress Dame May Whitty, father of Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...think you will find that General Marshall is the 51st Secretary of State and not the <(48th ... in the line started by Thomas Jefferson" [TIME, Jan. 27]. You could arrive very close to your figure-49-by eliminating the return engagements of Daniel Webster and James G. Elaine, but that isn't good political arithmetic, albeit reportorial face-saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...just an economist-a confessed "illiterate in the arts." But for the past five years Lewis Webster Jones had presided effectively over Vermont's arty, progressive Bennington College, whose 300-odd girls favor sloppy blue jeans and custom-tailored curricula, and excel in the modern dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blue Jeans with a Difference | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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