Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bet you got plenty of anguished howls from militant lowbrows about Shahn's splendid cover . . . For offbeat TIME covers, however, my money still goes on the job you did during the war on a Japanese admiral, I forget his name, but the artist was Boris Artzybasheff ... It was one of Artzybasheff's best...
...Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), was a character study of a megalomaniac, painted in overripe colors. The gambler (Jack Carson), at the nadir of his career (he is broke), risks whatever is dear to him for a bet on a sure thing that turns out not to be so sure. Its soupy point: the biggest suckers are those who think they can ride home on the long shots...
...bet ten dollers there is nothing...
...recent whirlwind tour to visit Budweiser wholesalers around the U.S., Busch bet every man he met a brand-new hat-900 in all-that he could not top his local sales quota for the year. So far, the challenge seems to be paying off. For May and June, Budweiser's wholesalers jumped their sales 5% over 1954 levels. Says Anheuser-Busch's President Gus Busch: "By the end of the year, I'll either have a houseful of hats or I'll be the biggest hat buyer in the country...
...here to represent the U.S. to foreign countries. We try to make a good impression everywhere." To make it bet ter, they rehearse two or three hours after breakfast every day, and again after lunch and dinner. Even when sightseeing, they make an impression. One girl, faced with an untranslatable menu, left her table, buttonholed a Frenchman on the street, brought him back and got him to translate the menu while other diners googled...