Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wonderful Business. In her dressing room between shows, munching a tired-looking sandwich and listening with one ear to cries of "Lillian!" from the street below, Entertainer Briggs surveyed her fast, dazzling rise. "It's wonderful! I love the whole business." The rough rock 'n' roll mob? They wouldn't hurt her-but she makes it a point to sneak out side doors, even though the cops are there to protect...
Lillian's zoom to success is not surprising. She has looks, a brassy voice that -when anybody cares to listen-is both true and spirited, and she can play trombone. The rock 'n' roll fad has probably whirled her up faster than otherwise would have happened, but her sudden good fortune has not made her cocky. "If anything goes off in this business," she says. I'll go back to driving a truck...
Test Pilot Roland Falk had been kidded by the press when he claimed he could roll his Vulcan, a delta-wing bomber the size of a big airliner. Last week, although scheduled only to make a low pass over the field, he rolled the great bomber like a jet fighter. Said a U.S. Air Force colonel: "I've never seen such a thing in my life." Said Falk: "I dared not ask them to let me do it. They might have said...
...kept pace with the new gambling facilities. But more important was the lack of experience of the new hotelmen themselves. A well-established casino-hotel that cost $5,000,000 often takes in as much from gambling in just one year. But the hotel must have a fat bank roll, be prepared to take months of heavy losses before its luck turns and it gets the free-spending, heavy-gambling regular clients that are the shock absorbers in the older places. In one new hotel there were so many bosses that some were unknown to each other. The new hotels...
...Licks. In London, Sidney Adams was fined ?3 ($8.40) after Mrs. Mary Jane Andrews testified that he had sworn to drive his neighbors mad, kept them up with noisy music night after night, once played a record of Shake, Rattle and Roll for 2½ hours...