Word: whit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...
Highlighting the action were fall victories by Walt Parsons, who chalked up his 24th consecutive triumph, Pete Fuller, and Jim Higgins. Whit Smith won by forfelt when opponent Earl Buckley was forced to retire with an injured...
...same papers Bishop Manning sent a sizzling letter denouncing Canterbury's action as "highly improper . . . ecclesiastical intrusion." British-born Bishop Manning pointed out that Canterbury has not a whit of authority in the Episcopal Church, whose members merely honor him as head of "our mother church, the historic Catholic and Apostolic Church of England." Canterbury's letter was doubly presumptuous, Manning declared, since the Episcopal Church's own head, Presiding Bishop Tucker, "has not felt it right to express himself publicly on this controversial question...
...professional farm leaders outside of Congress as well as in, the figures made no whit of difference. Last week they were in the middle of another attempt to gouge $3.5 billion out of the public for big farmers, who are the chief beneficiaries of the new prosperity. Smacked down in a fight in September against Franklin Roosevelt's inflation-control ultimatum, the farm bloc has since tried new tactics. This time persistent Representative Pace quietly slipped a farm labor cost bill through the House of Representatives. Administration leaders, caught off guard, realized too late that Pace...
Divorced. Martha Foley Burnett, 40, co-founder and longtime co-editor of Story magazine; by bearded co-founder and co-editor Whit Burnett, 43; after twelve years; in Reno. Few hours later he married Hallie Southgate Abbett, 34, Reno divorcée of October...