Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried by an overwhelming majority of eight million. I think that De Gaulle can take half the MRP votes away and a good many Socialist votes. I think the probability is that the constitution will be carried by a fairly small majority, and I would be willing to bet on its rejection if anyone would give good odds...
...under the impetus of the Boston Jazz Society, but nowadays the section of the Terrace where the hot men used to play looks like an unfinished pool room, which perhaps it is. The once jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys of his alto in an exceptionally adept but rather confusing manner. The member of his unit, a remarkably happy looking and youthful bunch...
...this election. Governor O'Conor strums an anti-Russia serenade for Baltimore's big Catholic vote. His Republican opponent, Colonel David John Markey, a poor campaigner himself, will get much-needed help from Baltimore's popular Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin, now running for Governor. Best bet as of last week: O'Conor...
Meanwhile he has a hobby to pursue. Like John McCormack, Christy Lynch is most eloquent on the subject of horses. "Sure and what I like to do is bet on them," he says. At Belmont Park last week, he examined a racing form: "They're all new to me, but," he confided,. "I can tell from the looks of him how a horse will...
...York outlet, WABC, might be a free ad for its rival, American Broadcasting Co., changed the station's call to WCBS (effective Nov. 1). Last week, NBC was at it, too. Said the network: FCC had okayed changing WEAF, New York, to WNBC. It was a good bet that to most listeners these changes in call letters made not a kilocycle's difference...