Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Lost. In Chicago, Benjamin Karns lugged a door into court to prove that he had not broken it down 'to beat his exwife, was jailed when the judge discovered a loose panel...
...Worst Possible Thing." One morning last week, while a hot sun beat down on Rome for the first time in weeks, Pallante sat in the visitors' gallery and watched Palmiro Togliatti. After a while the Sicilian went outside and lurked in the narrow, cobblestoned Via della Missione. Shortly before noon, he saw his prey coming out- Togliatti and Leonilda Iotti, full-bosomed, warm-eyed secretary to the Red parliamentary bloc. Togliatti & friend were bound for a gelateria and a cooling dish of ice cream. They paid no heed to the young man in the ill-fitting blue suit...
...affair, sat the first-place Boston Braves, who didn't need a new manager. At week's end, after winning four out of five, the Braves were eight games out front in the National League. Chuckled confident Manager Billy Southworth: "I'm a tough man to beat when I'm ahead. They're really going to have to go some to beat...
...working for Acme since its founding 25 years ago. He now bosses 250 employees and has 125 regular U.S. clients and a European picture network. Acme, although smaller than A.P., is neck & neck with I.N.P. Like every other picture editor, Blumenfeld has tried many a trick to score a beat. He thinks his best was at the 1928 Gene Tunney-Tom Heeney heavyweight fight at Yankee Stadium. Dressed in a white intern's coat, Blumenfeld waited outside the stadium gate in an ambulance...
...Steady Beat. The American Bankers Association felt the nation's credit pulse, found the beat normal. Although total consumer credit stood at a record $14,000,000,000, "it is far below the prewar peak in terms of national income," said the bankers. Best news: installment credit on automobiles, refrigerators, etc. still lagged $600,000,000 behind the 1941 peak...