Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent many days in Wilmington, Del. Once, during the course of the research, she and Mr. Greenewalt found themselves in a long, theoretical discussion on how TIME researches and reports a story-particularly such a complicated one as this. The discussion finally wound up in a bet. If there were no errors in the Greenewalt cover story, he was to pay Liz $5; for each error, Liz was to pay him $1. Says she: "I had to send him $1. I got Pierre du Font's age wrong...
...came reeling in at 12:30 at night after escaping the fleshpots of Harvard, I just couldn't contain myself. Now, other mothers can let their daughters go off like that, but I have to worry about my daughter's position and her standing at Radcliffe. I'll just bet that other mothers feel the same. A Radcliffe Mother (Name Withheld by Request...
...drop, going all-out for the downhill championship of the world. Norway's Stein Eriksen might well have taken it easy. Far ahead on points after winning the slalom and giant slalom, the Oslo ski salesman could have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine Combination. But Stein, as usual, drove all the way; even a spill could not keep him from finishing fast, only 5.1 seconds behind the downhill winner, Austria's Christian Pravda...
Young, who has long argued that the road's earnings are large enough to give the common stockholders a share in the road, was mum last week on the new plan. But it was safe to bet that his Alleghany Corp. would oppose it. "Less than a toe hold" is hardly enough for the man who wants to sit at the throttle of Mopac...
Called by Coach Corey Wynn "a sure bet" to win the national championship before he graduates, Heckscher has been undefeated in intercollegiate play this year, and brings with him a record from prep school which parallels that of the great Charlie Ufford...