Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower's strong right arm for the coming big squeeze is Budget Director Joseph Dodge. Last week the Wall Street Journal got hold of Dodge's confidential "statement of assumptions" regarding the 1955 budget. Some of Dodge's muscular recommendations...
...week's end, Tammany was still trying to find a Negro candidate of its own. Already one result of the election seemed fairly certain: Manhattan is sure of getting a Negro borough president, who will be the first Negro in the city's history to hold a major executive office...
...stripped almost naked and forced to stay in a cold hole for two days. Pfc. Joe Allen told of a "pro" who reported him when he tried to escape with a buddy. The guards picked them up. Allen signed a confession, but his fellow escapee decided to hold out for a while. The Chinese put him in a damp cellar. Said Allen: "A few days later they carried him out of the camp. He was dead, and he had blood around his mouth. The Chinese told us that the rats in the cellar...
...style that Hollywood thrust on her to play a sweater girl in From Here to Eternity, arrived in Manhattan (to rehearse for her first play in the U.S.) with a vision of the future. "I'd like to do as much as possible while my face and figure hold up," she mused. "Then I'd like to buy a place outside Florence where I'll paint. Then one day some people will come by, and one will say, 'Do you see that elderly lady with the floppy hat? She used to be a good-looking movie...
...detective in the world" may have been temporarily stymied, but he was not permanently stumped. In this and the 30 other cases he re-enacts in Fabian of the Yard, the inspector relies mostly on elementary, patient common sense and laboratory work, but he flashes enough intuitive genius to hold his own with the best of the fictional homicide squad-Holmes, Maigret, Philo Vance and Nero Wolfe...