Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nationalist leaders said: "We will fight to the bitter end . . . Nanking will hold out for six months." But they knew they could not keep these brave promises; the bitter end was at hand...
Cash Deal. A slight, weatherbeaten man of 49, Farrell realized a longtime ambition last season when he got a chance to put up all the money for the musicomedy Hold It!. Most of Manhattan's reviewers panned the show, but Farrell, who knows what he likes, wanted to keep it going. Six weeks and $300,000 later, he made his own odd diagnosis: the show's theater (where Call Me Mister had rolled up a hit run) was no good...
That could be fixed. Angel Farrell paid a lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop...
...Luther Error. Theologian Niebuhr says that Historian Arnold Toynbee's monumental effort to discover the pattern of history "belongs to one of the most impressive intellectual ventures of our age." But he does not hold with Toynbee's daring hypothesis that religion may be advancing onward & upward with the rise & fall of civilizations (TIME, April...
...Board, prodded by the big carriers, announced that it would ground the nonskeds as of June 20. After that, any "large" irregular carrier (i.e., flying any airplane heavier than 10,000 Ibs.) would have to have CAB's permission to stay in business. In granting permits, CAB would hold the nonskeds accountable for such past sins as flying on what amounted to regular schedules, and thus, according to scheduled airlines, taking business away from them. Anybody who got a permit would have to stick to irregular charter service...