Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Promise You. Meanwhile Jimmy Roosevelt was looking more & more like a pretty shrewd politico. Up & down the San Joaquin Valley he was drawing crowds to the back platform of his shiny new trailer-bus. For his campaign manager Jimmy badly wanted George T. Davis, a smart San Francisco lawyer who had run the California Truman-Barkley clubs. Davis wanted to be sure that it was all right with Harry Truman at Key West. After sounding out the Administration's boys in the back room, Davis came back with a demand from the Truman advisers that Jimmy promise in writing...
...some different notions about staging this time. In his Otello and Aida broadcasts of 1948 and 1949, the singers had been grouped in front of the orchestra. Last week he mounted them on a platform stage behind the orchestra so they would have room to move around in their parts and thus, he hoped, gain greater expressiveness. The stage had to be just the right height, too. After one rehearsal, son Walter Toscanini told Producer Don Gillis: "Father wants the stage maybe six inches higher." Gillis began an impatient reply, finished it with a smile: "Tell father he can-have...
During the last general election, Laski renewed his efforts for the Laborites. Two days before the election, Laski left his home, where he had been bedded with pneumonia, to speak in the constituency of North Hammersmith. He stood on the speaker's platform swaying, pale and weak. Since then he had been ill. One day last week his left lung collapsed and he was taken to the hospital. Next day, at 56, Harold Laski was dead. He once told a biographer: "I really don't think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest...
There will be dancing both in the Lowell dining hall and on a mammoth wooden platform to be erected in the large courtyard of Lowell House, it was announced...
Ending the program, five Wellesley and Radcliffe girls were brought to the platform and asked to vote between Camel Cigarettes and Leverett House, with Leverett winning four...