Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy about the program they won't even get up to answer the phone...
...were skeptical. But in 1941 the sportsmen tried another 100,000; these hatched successfully, were planted in the lake as fingerlings. Pend Oreille's deep water and an abundance of blueback salmon to feed on seemed to be just what the Kamloops (local name for the over-sized rainbow trout) needed. Some grew 15 lbs. in one year...
Died. Robert H. Tyndall, 70, Republican mayor of Indianapolis, World War I commander of the crack Rainbow Division's 150th Field Artillery; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis...
Even without a pot of Argentine gold and boatloads of Argentine wheat at its end, Argentina's rainbow would have been welcome in Spain...
...Rainbow's Start. It was not the humble swamp from which the Argentine rainbow first rose that earned her the haughty looks of B.A.'s aristocrats; it was the murky clouds through which she had climbed to arch so gracefully over their heads...