Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soiled, gray, away-game jersey worn by Babe Ruth during his 1929 and 1930 seasons with the Yankees. Ruth's shirt was just one of 991 items that were offered during a two-day sale of gloves, bats, * rings, boxing trunks and a 1950s N.H.L. Zamboni ice-smoothing machine conducted by Leland's, a premier auctioneer of sports memorabilia. The event grossed about $2 million and was one of the largest auctions of its kind ever held...
Leland's auctions tend to bring the buyer very close to the player: Michael Jordan's sneakers went for $1,320, Tom Seaver's chewed-up toothpick for $440 and Mike Tyson's mouthpiece for $880. A packet of prophylactics from the 1950s with Ted Williams' picture on it, though not game-used, still sold...
When Neil Simon and other such budding comedy legends as Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart wrote for TV comic Sid Caesar in his 1950s heyday, they rarely put anything on paper. Instead they sat in a room trying to top one another, shouting out situations and one-liners. Periodically Caesar would halt the schoolboy jockeying to read aloud what they had so far. "Read what?" Simon recalls asking. "We haven't written anything yet." But Caesar had culled the best of their ideas as he heard them and, by a wink or nod, had ensured they were recorded...
...violating the due-process, equal- protection and free-speech rights of gay soldiers. As a collective challenge, the cases seek to remove gay rights from the political arena and force a judicial review by the Supreme Court. The strategy is evocative of the civil-rights struggle, which in the 1950s turned to the Supreme Court to rectify racial injustices...
HEADQUARTERED IN A SPRAWLING, 1950s-era complex just outside Beijing, the Shougang steel company is a symbol of China's economic prowess -- and its problems. Earlier this year, when credit was easy and the economy was steaming ahead at a 17% annual clip, the state-owned conglomerate and its 270,000 employees could hardly keep pace with consumer demand. Profits soared. Then came the credit crunch orchestrated by economic czar Zhu Rongji, and Shougang felt the sting at once. Customers slashed their orders, and soon Shougang could not pay its bills. The company last month was forced to take...