Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's teetotalism, the town of Newport, England decided, is his own personal business. The Town Council rejected a proposal that all Newport citizens stick to orangeade and lemonade during the Marshal's visit there this month...
Thus fixed, Vigeland married himself to his job, forever forsook all ordinary social life. Even wives (he divorced two) were out. Oslo's citizens caught only brief glimpses of him-when he took walks armed with a heavy stick, to protect himself from dogs, which he hated. One result of his personal seclusion: Vigeland is far less known internationally than his fellow Scandinavian sculptor, Sweden's Carl Milles...
...Lawton, Okla., ex-Marine Bennett Savage, wounded on Bougainville, ran the Oklahoma Club, a night spot whose best customers were soldiers from nearby Fort Sill. Proprietor Savage needed no G.I. loan. He invested $12,000 he had made in similar, prewar ventures. His future: "I'll stick as long as the business is good...
...Milton disappeared from public view, and at week's end had not been heard from. Neither had George Stevens, who was still overseas, although Imogene had sent him a peremptory cable: "Come home at once." George's father was sure he would if he could: "George will stick with her. When a man's stuck he's stuck...
Paul Whiteman set the pace with his 1,500th-odd playing of the Rhapsody. All four major networks agreed to stick in Gershwin tunes on almost every musical show that comes along. Among others, Todd Duncan (the original "Porgy") and every songstress from Lily Pons to Dinah Shore will give out with Gershwin in July. The climax will be a big outdoor concert, starring Oscar Levant, at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium on July 12. That will be exactly eight years and a day after Gershwin's death-a rather odd-figure anniversary until one considers that it coincides...