Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week will be National Pickle Week. All over the country, strong arms and keen minds will move as one man towards the culmination of the annual celebration of this vegetable. The National Pickle Packers Association will hold a convention that will turn the American Legion green with envy. From a line of glorious stars of the screen, the chairman of the group will crown a Pickle Queen. Once more, America will acknowledge the stupendous role the pickle has played in the flowering of the human spirit...
...offers all the visual razzle-dazzle a TV screen can hold. With at least five costume changes in each show, he has bounced on as Superman, Li'l Abner, Santa Claus, an Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...
...illness made a vacancy at the New York Palace, vaudeville's top spot, where he had played with Elizabeth several times. An agent booked Milton at $750 a week and discreetly vanished on a cruise. But Milton "fractured 'em," ran for seven weeks and won a firm hold as a headliner...
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 10 sides). Fritz Reiner's performance of this great work for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3) may hold the edge in fire and power; but the fine work of the Concertgebouw, and the spaciousness and detail of Decca's recording, make this...
...Wall Street Journal also admonished Big Steel: "There seems no reason why the sessions should not take place in a hall of sufficient size." Forbes Magazine Publisher B. C. Forbes also let fly: "The time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...