Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
...plenty of chances at the big time. When he was 18 he got as far as Manhattan's expensive Copacabana, even though his talents were hidden behind a bevy of beautiful arm-waving chorus girls. Two years ago, he won an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts contest. Last fall, Eddie Cantor heard Fisher singing at a summer resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters, cutting an occasional record...
After war's end, he was made president of the Dodge division, has had a finger in more & more corporate pies and a habit of working at high-compression speed. If Chrysler President K. T. Keller, who will be 65 this fall, should decide to retire, it looked as if Tex Colbert would be among the leading candidates to succeed...
...versifying . . ." Voltaire once said, "is like dancing in fetters on a rope." For writers of light verse, the trick is to do the dance on a string. Most of them manage a light fantastic stanza or two, but soon fall flat on their anapests...
...Fall Catalogue. In Corvallis, Ore., Professor A. G. B. Bouquet resigned from Oregon State College's horticulture department, was succeeded by Professor Spencer B. Apple...