Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the depression, a millionaire walked into the Minneapolis office of a floundering outdoor-sports magazine, and shyly presented a manuscript he had written. The editor sized up the author and the story and bought it for $10. He got a great bargain: before grateful Lumberman M. J. Bell Sr. was through, he had invested more than $50,000 to keep Sports Afield afloat...
...piece begins with a wolf call, and ends with all the instruments thrown into a corner. It is scored for ukulele, kazoo, hogan-twanger (wooden box and hacksaw blades), cardboard box, seal barks and an Indian elephant bell. It has words like this...
Those making the trip are: Loring Batchelder, Jonathan Spivak, Charles Weiss, Hans Estin, Captain Phil Potter, Bill Dawson, Dick Saul, Don Louria, Jim Bell, Rick Drake, Mike Scully, Jack Harshman, Gus Seamans, Harvey Mudd, Bill Gilbert, Roy Heisler, Tom Ragle, and Coach Munro...
Five a Second. Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) announced that it would put on sale this fall the world's most expensive still camera. Its "Foton" will take five 35-mm. pictures a second, sell for $700. Bell & Howell, which has found that "families of both low and high incomes now spend over $550" for movie equipment, hopes to sell 20,000 Fotons a year...
...Harvard team: Batchelder, g; Scully, lf; Drake, rf; Carswell, Bell, lhb; Carodney, chb; Saul, Seamans, Mudd rhb; Dawson, le; Potter (capt.) Gilbert li; Estin, cf; Weiss ri; Spivak...