Word: calling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross Country" is producer Max Liebman's baby. He was the director and producer of last season's popular television show, "Broadway Revue," as well as a contributor to Broadway's "Call Me Mister" and "Make Mine Manhattan." His customary emphasis on dancing is evident in his latest effort. Nelle Fisher's energetic and skillful choreography is what makes the show tick. Her dancing, and that of Jerry Ross, former lead in "Call Me Mister," is fast, slick, and entertaining...
...Call Out the A.S.P.D.! The Military District of Washington announced a daring experiment in unification: it was getting ready to put the Army's MPs and the Navy's Shore Patrol out of business. Some time around the first of the year, the MPs and SP would be merged (with the Air Force's patrolmen) into a new and common enemy: the Armed Services Police Department...
...foot, subway and train -Artie Biggs, a freckle-faced eleven-year-old, had started out for Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week the call came again, loud and clear. Artie dialed the Trans World Airline counter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, told them he was going to Hollywood to make a picture and wanted a reservation. Yes, he said, the afternoon Constellation that stopped at Pittsburgh and St. Louis would be all right...
Next day the States ran an exclusive story of its own under a Page One banner: "PRINCE" MATE OF N.O. GIRL CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...
...interest in an article the instructor had written touching on the law of evidence. Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn...