Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late evening broadcasts I have heard in the past few weeks, I wouldn't say the change is doing Roy's reputation much good, for with one or two exceptions he concentrated on "instrumental tight-rope walking" rather than the excellent, tasteful jazz improvisations he has been known to perform in the past...
With no race scheduled for this weekend, Tom Bolles has been spending his time shifting around the personnel of his first boat in an effort to improve on an eight which has already won the admiration of all who have seen it perform. Bus Curwen is at present sitting in the stroke seat of the big Varsity boat, and Ted Lyman has moved into the waist of the boat...
...seemed to be the Napier, and last week British representatives in Washington were reputed to be urging OPM to get busy and manufacture Sabres on a big scale. Luckily for the U.S. Army Air Corps, one of its top-flight airmen has seen the Typhoon perform, has had a good look at its engine. British newsmen reported that Major General Henry H. Arnold seemed more impressed by it than by anything else he had seen in Britain...
...Russian," a famous juggler from the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, whom John Ringling North terms, "by far the best juggler I have ever seen," will also perform. According to Austin Mason, Jr., chairman of the committee arranging the evening, there will be several other equally well-known entertainers...
Kaiser's immediate interest in steel was raised to white heat by delivery delays which are making it impossible for him to perform his favorite trick of finishing contracts ahead of schedule. At the Richmond yards of his Todd-California Shipbuilding Corp. tank-top steel promised the first of the month did not arrive; the best Kaiser could get after protesting loudly to the steel industry and 0PM was a promise that it would be only about 30 days late. When he tried to buy 5,000 tons of steel for barges to work...