Word: tells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chandler Thomas' job to tell you about all the news in music: the rise of an attractive new jazz singer like Mindy Carson (TIME, Aug. 1); an account of the monumental recording task which Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...
...game under control, officials expelled two players from the game (one from each team). Army was penalized 147 yards, including seven 15-yard penalties for major fouls; Fordham was set back 131 yards, 120 yards of it for similar fouls. Even the 278-yard penalty total didn't tell the whole story: over 100 yards of penalties were declined...
...several weeks now this scribe has witnessed fast backs, punishing tackles, aggressive ends, and triple-threat men battle in high school football games. The experience has left him with the conviction that many of these teams could fight Harvard to a scoreless first half (weight and Howard Houston might tell in the end). Certainly several of these teams could run riot over the incumbent freshman aggregation...
...enormously successful. Each couple of contestants (three for each half-hour show) is given $20 and a chance to bet on their answers to questions in a given field. Quizmaster Groucho perches on a stool by the microphone, and chats with them between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes on his grey slacks. "They talk...
...money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some of my friends who are not top executives tell me that doors are closed because I have in my time talked back to some of the big boys...