Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...
...fact that two men handled the rod may keep Schmidt from becoming the new recordholder. But the International Game Fish Association might make an exception. Louis Schmidt, injured as a boy in Baltimore, has only...
...keep them gawking, Leonidoff can pull such stunts as having an orchestra pit full of musicians swallowed up by the floor, to reappear a few moments later high at the rear of the stage. Lowered by elevator, the pit simply moves through the basement under its own power and gets on one of the three elevators that make up the sectional stage. (The stage revolves, too, elevators...
Rockettes & Forest Fire. Slight, bustling Leonidoff, 52, a onetime ballet dancer, dreams up most of the shows (300 in the Music Hall's 16 years), with Producers Russell Markert and Florence Rogge taking turns at others. They must keep their dreams expansive enough for the stage's electrical and mechanical powers, plus the talents of guest headliners and a "stock company": the famed precision-kicking Rockettes, the Glee Club, Alexander Smallens' symphony orchestra, and the only resident ballet troupe...
Warming himself last week in the glow of his fireworks, Leonidoff was already hatching new spectacles to keep the theater's 6,200 seats filled. One of his pet projects: a cavalcade of the building of the West, opening with a raging forest fire and closing with the San Francisco skyline rising gold-plated out of the horizon...