Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pets & Stallions. Sniffing the political wind, shrewd, 65-year-old Prime Minister Fraser soft-pedaled the Socialist line, tried to convince the guinea pigs that if they elected the free-enterprisers they would face insecurity, wage cuts, a depression. The opposition National Party promised to keep social security and present wage levels. But it hammered hard at high taxes, controls, and the creeping inefficiency of government...
...National Arts Foundation was making good on its promise to keep Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse Triste) in stogies for the rest of his life. Anticipating his 84th birthday Dec 8, the foundation started air-expressing 84 boxes of cigars to his forest cottage near Helsinki...
...awfully embarrassed about my legs," Betty Grable confided in Hollywood as her studio mailed to a fan the 1,500,000th copy of the famous Grable-in-a-bathing-suit photo. "People all want to know how I manage to keep them the way they are. I don't have a good answer ... I am just in luck that I happen to stem from the proper genealogical tree. I owe it all to Grannie...
...eyed Fred Allen, taking a year's vacation from radio, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby how it feels to be an "unemployed actor": "It's wonderful, this freedom. You can live on the money you save on aspirin. The only trouble is, I keep thinking of jokes and I don't know what to do with them." As for TV, Allen found it "too graphic. In radio, even a moron could visualize things his way; an intelligent man, his way. It was a custom-made suit. Television is a ready-made suit. Everyone...
...think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...