Word: soon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaving touchdown passes-three of them in less than four minutes. In the calmer second half (only four major penalties) Army kept its command. Final score: Army 35, Fordham 0. Despite the score, the Rams had shown enough power to impress the experts; it looked as though Fordham would soon have an outstanding football team if it didn't have one already...
...Then, two years ago, New York's WNBC signed him up to do Take It Easy, a half-hour (later expanded to 45 minutes) daytime disc-jockey show. His easy microphone manner and his new reliability made him a solid hit with both audience and sponsor. Soon, he picked up another show, the morning Melody Time. Last week one more was added: Inner Sanctum...
During the early years he developed the opening announcement that is still his trademark. "Our biggest problem was what to say when we first went on the air," Brokenshire recalls. "I finally decided on 'How do you do, ladies and gentlemen.' Pretty soon I found that other announcers were copying me. So I added a second 'How do you do' and really underlined...
...night last fall during a performance in Covent Garden, Margot slipped and pulled a tendon in her ankle. With her leg in a cast, she could not dance again for three months, though she was scheduled to open soon in Ashton's Cinderella, which she had rehearsed for six months. It was the first time anyone had even seen her crushed. Unable to endure London without dancing, she went to Paris. Moira Shearer danced Cinderella in her place...
Unhappy Treasury. But the U.S. Treasury was not quite so happy about the deal. It has been concerned about the problem of "sell & leaseback" since 1945, when Union College of Schenectady bought, for $16,150,000, the buildings of Allied Stores Inc., and leased them back to the company. Soon other colleges were buying not only real estate but commercial businesses as well. So many U.S. stores and other enterprises have sold their property to tax-exempt institutions* that the Treasury is now losing an estimated $1 billion a year in income taxes. A survey by the American Council...