Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Companion (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). A song that asks the soap-opera question: Can a man who is only 33 find peace & contentment? Clooney's answer: love me and you will never grow older than 33. The other side, Why Don't You Love Me? is a bouncing bet for the hit parade...
...touring opera company came to Spokane that spring. Pat got a job in the chorus for the performances of Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci and Carmen. The San Carlo Opera Company also came to town that year, and Pat and a friend named Mary Jo Williams heard Madame Butterfly. Pat solemnly bet her girl friend 15? she would some day sing at the Met (she has never collected...
...worked out new radio newscasting ideas, got some good beats, was dubbed by one admiring opposition boss "the University of Transradio" because so many of its trained men graduated to bigger, better-paying outfits. Transradio was too successful; U.P., I.N.S. and A.P. realized they had missed a bet in the radio field, began to peddle news themselves, put the squeeze on Transradio. Said Transradio President Robert Moore (brother Herbert branched off into the publishing business in 1942): "We lost one client here and one client there. We just kept getting smaller and smaller...
...part of the country, ef'n ya hain't got the gumption to check on whuther a story is true or not, ya jest run an eddytorial saying ya don't believe it. Ah don't know how yer moonshine indestry compares with ourn up here, but ah'd bet we'uns could teach ya a thing or two about jurnyalism-Eddy...
...perverse pessimism early in the season, we contrived a ten dollar bet that Harvard would not win four or more football games this season. Since then, Lloyd Jordan's astonishing amateurs have played some fine football on occasion to win three of those four contests--with the Elis...