Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Eddie. His love affair with Eastern Air Lines began in 1935. He was delighted when G.M. chose him to run it -it was one of the sickest limbs of a sick industry, but its territory was dotted with cities, from New York to Miami, and it was almost devoid of competition. When G.M. decided to sell it, three years later, he rounded up $3.5 million in 30 frantic days, and bought it with the triumphant air of a boy getting his first bicycle...
...best foreign play, the Manhattan critics chose T. S. Eliot's verse comedy...
...Communist-led guerrillas chose March 29, eighth anniversary of the birth of the Huk movement, * to begin their raids. Between midnight and dawn, bands of well-armed Huks sprang on four towns in the provinces surrounding Manila...
...Overriding Need. In this situation, Arthur Vandenberg sat down in his apartment and picked out a letter on his typewriter. The means he chose to make his influence felt were characteristically devised to offend his colleagues as little as possible. His letter made no reference to McCarthy or Acheson. He addressed it to Paul Hoffman; its subject was EGA, but it was obvious that Vandenberg was addressing many others...
...than a genius, plays the musician, Rick Martin. For the behind-the-scenes trumpet they could have picked Bobby Hackett, the last fine musician of the Bix school. They could have selected any one of a number of good young California trumpeters who worship Beiderbecke's records. So they chose Harry James. This only adds to the public illusion that jazz was discovered in New Orleans by Larry Parks, that it was brought up to Chicago on the riverboats by Arturo de Cordoya, and that every great jazz trumpeter must have sounded like James...