Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibly be "a greater risk than is a normal person of my age," but "so far as my own personal sense of well-being is concerned, I am as well as before the attack occurred . . . As of this moment, there is not the slightest doubt that I can now perform as well as I ever have all of the important duties of the presidency . . . I am confident that I can continue to carry them indefinitely. Otherwise I would never have made the decision I announced today...
Died. Elsie Janis (real name: Bierbower), 65, bright star of Broadway and the London music halls during World War I and the early '20s, first big-name American entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in France ("The Sweetheart of the A.E.F."), oldtime cinemactress (A Regular Girl), author (So Far, So Good; Love Letters of an Actress); following surgery for perforated ulcers; in Beverly Hills Calif...
...thereby breaking the 2 p.m. release time). Political radarscopes began blipping wildly. "I'm dancing a jig," cried Republican Senator Alexander Wiley, who bases his hopes for re-election in gas-consuming Wisconsin on his opposition to the bill. Then Wiley left the chamber literally to perform his jig for photographers...
...managers also perform a service for the University, by doing some of the administrative work for the Athletic Association...
...first and most serious flaw in this simple scheme is that it would establish the state amateur here. Such a program, which we decry in communist countries, has no place in a free society, for it implies a continuing obligation on the part of all athletes to perform for their country...