Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paramount's latest block party is typical of all these potpourris. It is based this time on the popular radio program, Duffy's Tavern, and it is held together, flimsily as usual, by the attempts of amiable Ed Gardner, the inimitable Archie, aided and abetted by the perennial Victor Moore, to put together a block party (surprisingly enough) with all the available talent from the Paramount...
Almost a dozen men have already undertaken to thaw out competitive skiing from its wartime ice block by mapping out a busy series of events, from preseason conditioning next month through all the major and minor collegiate meets this winter, according to John Kennedy '47, ski team manager...
...time this flurry of announcements had died, Lockheed's smart, shy 48-year-old President Robert E. Gross had firm orders on the books for $68,000,000 worth of Constellations, largest single block of commercial orders in aviation history. With this fat backlog, Lockheed moved into Planemaker Donald W. Douglas' place as the No. 1 U.S. commercial plane builder. In one hop, the four-motored, 51 passenger Constellation had carried Lockheed to the top of the heap...
...three decades, until Herbert Hoover laid her up to save money, presidential guests marveled at the Mayflower's black bathtub, carved from a single block of Italian marble (it was too small for outsize William Howard Taft). The Mayflower burned and sank in 1931, was salvaged, served in World War II as a Navy and Coast Guard training ship...
After Impresario Diaghilev's death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well-promoted Ballet Theatre. Danilova has spent seven years as queen bee of a company called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which has a ballet corps well drilled in ex-Husband Balanchine's intricate geometric designs but is woefully short of top dancers...