Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth, 23, appointed a new lady-in-waiting to fill a vacancy caused by illness. Among the neophyte's traditional duties: handling the royal purse (British Princesses never carry cash...
...Good Run. In the paddock before the race, Jockey Brooks, who had never ridden Ponder, got a fill-in on his mount. Said Jones: "I don't think he'll win, but he'll beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...
...promotion, advertising and editorial departments working together to plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot he snagged pretty, blonde Andrée Vilas, 34, once editor of Junior Bazaar, then managing editor of Glamour, and currently managing editor of Charm...
...strings himself. Soon after he took to the baton, he became too busy to fiddle. Part of the huge repertory he and the Pops have built up: 103 marches, 98 overtures, 115 suites, 81 piano concertos, 51 waltzes, 45 arrangements from musical comedies. Boston Pops recordings now fill more pages in RCA Victor's Red Seal catalogue (160 titles) than those of any other orchestra except the Philadelphia...
Cliff Crosby popped out to Amirault but Walt Coulson drove Dunn home with a single, and Foynes scored on a base hit by Hal Moffle. Coulson was thrown out at the plate, but Ernie Mannino walked to fill the bases. Tom Cavanaugh then fanned to end the inning and with the bases loaded again in the second, Cavanaugh popped out to the shortstop...