Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bond has grown between him and his audience. "Somehow, they can sense I've suffered and that I'm sympathetic to other people's suffering," he says. "I get all kinds of letters telling me how I've helped people. I say to them: 'Keep right on doing what you're doing-as long as it's a good thing you're doing.' A woman wrote me that she was taking a drink from a bottle when I said that. She put it down and hasn't touched it since...
Merrill, a Mississippian who moved back home to Natchez on his retirement in 1947, announced that if he could raise enough money to keep the school from foundering and increase its enrollment, he would be glad to take the job of skipper. Moreover, he knew just what he wanted the Jefferson of the future to be like: a school where students would lay the basis of interservice understanding by taking combined courses in "naval, military, air and diplomatic sciences." Said Tip Merrill, once an outspoken foe of service unification (TIME, April 22, 1946): "Jefferson Military College could set the example...
...miners entitled to a raise? Since 1927 the price of gold has gone up 69%, while wholesale prices in general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price unless the U.S. raised its official price also, because the Treasury is required by law to keep gold at $35 an ounce. While a gold boost would give Britain and other U.S. allies a modest profit on their gold holdings, the greatest beneficiary might be Russia, probably the world's biggest gold producer. The biggest reason of all for not boosting the price of gold...
...week's end, having made her peace with M-G-M and with L.O.P., Judy had managed to work off another four pounds in song & dance rehearsals, was plugging away at the last four pounds and hoping very hard to keep everybody happy...
Though Scripter Robert Pirosh fought in the foxholes near Bastogne, his story is littered with humor, characters and incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel...