Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party in the U. S.-had come out to Davis melody. Meyer Davis has played through five administrations at the White House, although he had few dates during...
Retailers even expanded their plants. In Manhattan, on the site of Flo Ziegfield's first Follies, the Bond clothing chain opened its 60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...
...Harmony and Tranquillity." Opening the 60th annual convention of A. F. of L. in New Orleans, last week, President William Green crowed: "There is harmony and tranquillity here. . . . Behold the contrast as we look this morning to a city beside the sea, where a rebel group is meeting...
There was no such excitement in New Orleans at the 60th annual convention of A. F. of L. There the report of the executive council denounced racketeering and William Green's keynote address urged labor unity, accused John Lewis of having blocked it before. During his speech William Green was told that John Lewis had announced his resignation. Said William Green: "I still maintain that his resignation . . . will mean nothing unless he also resigns from the United Mine Workers...
...maintains a sporting shrine in his Brentwood home near Hollywood. Among the trophies on display in the shrine are the gloves Dempsey used to knock out Willard, the shoes Paddock wore when he broke the 100-yard dash record, the bat Babe Ruth employed when he knocked out his 60th home run in one season...