Word: ad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the breakup of the stage & screen team of the Marx Brothers (The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera), Groucho was on & off radio for ten years before anyone found him particularly funny on the air. Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
...Halloween-masked men forced their way into the Glass Hall Studies of WHBS, the Business School radio station, at 9 p.m. last night and held an announcer and technician powerless to stop them as they broadcast ad lib for five minutes-but over a dead mike...
...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
...week later, when I was about ready to sail home, I picked up my Aug. 8 copy of TIME. (I always turn to Music first, then Art, People third, and then to the front inside cover and read straight through to the ad on the back.) I never did get beyond Art of that issue, however, because there was a self-portrait and the pathetic story of Sekoto! "I dashed back to the gallery waving my copy of TIME, and showed it to De Cardonne, saying, 'Let's get this to Sekoto right away!' Imagine my astonishment...
...smaller rooms which ad-joined the main part of the old library will now serve as music and game rooms, equipped with victrola, plane, records, and bridge and parlor gams facilities...