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...succeed former M.I.T. President Karl Compton as chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Bureau, President Truman last week picked another M.I.T. man and longtime associate of ailing ex-Chairman Compton. His choice: 49-year-old William Webster, a vice president of the New England Electric System...
...victory was most of all Shaw's. Margaret Webster's production, with Evans in the title role, is properly lively, but more lively than skillful; and at the cavernous City Center, where audibility must come before art, it is not so much spoken as shouted. The play's the thing-at any rate the second half of it. At the start of this comedy of the American
Alive and Kicking (music by Hal Borne, Irma Jurist & Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster & Ray Golden; produced by William R. Katzell & Mr. Golden) turns bright just often enough to accentuate its general dullness. It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash. It is also a mechanical show; it behaves as though the right proportion of songs, skits and dance numbers were just as good as the right kind...
...newscast over Houston station KPRC in 1936, Commentator Frank Colby mentioned the Dionne "KWIN-tyoo-plits." Listeners barraged him with protests; they said that the correct pronunciation was kwin-TUH-plits or kwinTOO-plits. After Colby had cited Webster to prove that his pronunciation was preferred, he decided to start a column in the Houston Chronicle about words, their pronunciation and derivation. It was such a success that Colby settled down full-time to writing a daily column, "Take My Word for It," now syndicated in 600 newspapers...
...been caught, or because they were just inside the foul line, or because they thought he whole business was silly. The NCAA may be fulfilling its constructional promise by establishing a uniform law of amateurism; if so, it is proceeding under a definition of "amateur" that stretches Noah Webster's reasoning to its limit...