Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood's best bet on why Damon Runyon became a producer is that he glumly watched Mark Hellinger move up from script writing to producing, swore that he could do anything Hellinger could do and do it better. At first he so loathed California that his wife bet him a dozen of his famed cacophonous Charvet ties that he wouldn't last four weeks. He stuck it out five months at RKO, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and has since become, in most respects, an acclimated if eccentric Hollywoodsman...
...Best bet for the 440 is probably Ted Winthington, captain of this spring's Freshman team, and one of the best Crimson middle distance men. '46er Jim Wheeder ran close to 50 seconds in a meet against Milton last Spring but still runs too tight, and Arnold Ederman, who broke into the Boston papers with his sensational win in the Newton Y.M.C.A. meet early in the summer, may not be able to run on Sunday because of a bad knoe...
...three men were present and in character, would Stalin the dictator, Churchill the imperialist and Bullitt the diplomat have appeared last week. But whether Churchill or Bullitt, or even Stalin, was actually in Moscow none but Nazi radio announcers professed to know. Even so, it was a good bet that they were, and that somewhere inside the Kremlin there was being played out an amazing scene in the drama of World...
...huge roundup of fifth columnists abetted by Nazi parachutists. In one Don sector alone 45 fifth columnists were summarily shot. Russian accounts did not identify them as part of the Germanic minority, but German-Russians. who have preserved their language and national customs, undoubtedly would be the best Nazi bet for stirring up trouble. More than 400,000 lived in the region which until last autumn was the German Volga Autonomous Republic, just north of Stalingrad. Many of them had been removed (TIME, Sept. 15) to prevent behind-the-lines treachery...
Hippophobe. At Fort Logan, Colo., a full-blooded Arapaho Indian, away from home for the first time, told Army officers he was a poor bet for the cavalry: he was afraid of horses...