Word: ziegfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easeful singing of a portly Der Bingle to pale by comparison. Two of Astaire's routines are especially good--a top-hat-and-cane number, "Putting On The Ritz," and a technicolorful costume piece, "Heat Wave." While not quite up to the standard of his "Limehouse Blues" performance in "Ziegfield Follies," they still feature Mr. Astaire, and that, fans, will suffice...
Retailers even expanded their plants. In Manhattan, on the site of Flo Ziegfield's first Follies, the Bond clothing chain opened its 60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...