Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...through the halls and into the rooms of the sanatorium's northern wing, a two-story stone annex. Nurses and attendants plunged into the annex to unlock doors and get at the screaming, the laughing and the uncomprehending men & women penned inside. Firemen raised ladders and hacked heavy wire screens away from windows. George Lewis, a 51-year-old attendant, found the keys to one ward for the violently insane and led firemen to it. "Don't go in there until I go in first," he warned them. "They'll get excited." Lewis unlocked their straps...
Soviet economy big transfusions of live-wire salesmanship. In a major speech at Erevan in his native Armenia he said: "It is time to think seriously of the organizing of trade advertising, and of intensifying...
With the confidence and skill of a high-wire cyclist, Max Liebman each week whips together a 28-man, 1½ hour musical revue called Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV). This week, 48-year-old Producer-Director Liebman displays his real virtuosity by riding two vehicles at once: he is putting on another 1½-hour musical, the Easter special Star-Spangled Revue (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV), sponsored by Frigidaire and featuring Bob Hope, Beatrice Lillie, Dinah Shore and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plus his own company...
...painter, Smith had been a late and uncertain starter. After making halfhearted attempts at earning his-living in the family wire works and in a Bradford woolen mill, he persuaded his parents to let him study commercial art in Manchester. His real artistic life began in 1903 when he crossed the channel to Brittany...
...Washington he usually attends Secretary of State Dean Acheson's press conferences, has not yet got his White House pass. Schuley, who belongs to no political party himself, says he strives for "neutral and fair" reporting in the "objective" manner of U.S. wire services, eschews punditing. So far, he has avoided painting word-portraits of controversial U.S. personalities because he is "against quick judgments...