Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer...
Only a few friends gathered at Cleveland's Union Terminal last week when Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) left town. But Cleveland knew he had been there. For 3½ years, as majority stockholder and impresario of the Cleveland Indians, 35-year-old Promoter Veeck had turned the crank...
Fireworks for Fans. He had grown up in the baseball business, beginning with the Chicago Cubs, where his father was club president. Bill himself had been everything from office boy to treasurer at Wrigley Field; in 1941, with the help of Midwest friends, he had bought control of the Milwaukee...
"My game's as good as ever, maybe better," admitted scar-faced Tennistar Pancho Gonzales. "I'm O.K. on passing shots and return of serve. We go along neck and neck, each holding service. Then he wins." From Milwaukee to White Plains, N.Y. and on through Pittsfield and...
All down the line, the U.S. economy was moving into high gear. Christmas shopping was off to a flying start (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Pittsburgh steel mills, rushing to make up for strike-lost time, expect to hit 90% of capacity this week. Soft-coal production climbed to 14 million...