Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come Back (Peggy Lee; Decca). A rocking blues that turns out to be really blue. Wonderful Peggy starts out confidently, but quickly sinks into a throat-catching mood, using a high, thin voice of ultimate sadness. "Hold out, baby," she keens. "I'll be back...
Next day John Ashley put off in a boat to find out. The fisherfolk, farmers and lighthouse keepers he found there had no church at all, and Ashley 'began to visit them from time to time to hold services...
...Last year B.S.A.'s business began falling off: profits before taxes slid to $8,000,000 by year's end as the government's anti-inflationary credit squeeze pinched sales. The worse business got, the less the B.S.A. directors and the insurance companies that hold blocks of B.S.A. stock appreciated the antics and expense accounts of their board chairman and his lady. Last week, in a fiery, three-hour meeting, they unceremoniously fired Sir Bernard not only as chairman and managing director, but even as a director...
Funniest episode: the two Pal Joeys get hold of a magazine called The Booster from a trusting U.S. businessman. Under Perles and Miller, the sheet's literary editors included William Saroyan, and it boasted a Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis. The new Booster's second and last issue contained a story of a man who completely vanished inside a beautiful girl in an igloo...
...addition to the Class of 1931, Classes of 1896, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1921, 1926, 1936, 1941, 1946, 1950 and 1953 also are scheduled to hold formal reunion events. University officials estimate that by Thursday there will be some 15,000 people in Cambridge to witness the awarding of academic and honorary degrees...