Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Needham wins his bet (score at press time: one letter), it will not be because he is correct. TIME's poppy is the tamed Eschscholtzia californica...
...seven students from the University of California's Berkeley campus began their program in the big A.F.L. Labor Temple in Oakland, a baldheaded truck driver in the audience snorted: "College kids. Bet they tell us how to save the world. I wish I'd stayed home and watched...
...Drake went to the post for the 176th running of the English Derby at Epsom Downs last week, it had the bright red and white of the Volterra stables on its back and only $56 of Suzy's money on its nose. With fine French caution, Suzy also bet $14 insurance money on the Aga Khan's Hafiz...
...prize money meant as little to Suzy Volterra as the loss of her bet on Hafiz II. She had a winner for her husband's stables, and that was enough. Back in the saddling area, Alice Lady Derby congratulated her jockey on his fine ride and made brave plans for one more Derby...
...charitable organization that receives all the commercial fees paid to Bishop Sheen, said the switch was being made because "the financial emoluments are so much larger, and the coverage is better." The proposed new time, 8 p.m. on Thursdays, will compete with NBC's top-ranked You Bet Your Life. Quipped Bishop Sheen, who often discusses the origins and ideology of Communism on his show: "Viewers will now have a choice of two Marxes-Groucho or Karl...