Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offering seven points. Vag hadn't yet received his clippings from home on the Harvard-Brown game. Maybe Clasby wouldn't even play against Yale tomorrow. Vag was still pondering Clasby's fate as he pulled out 400 yen. He really ought to make it an even bet just to show his contempt for all old Blues. But Vag figured he might just as well take the lad's money. After all, they had scalped him last year...
...Princeton's "narrow escape with impotent Harvard." The Yalie thought that "impotent" business was pretty cute until Vag snarled "too bad you missed the Dartmouth game this year." The Eli suddenly started talking about Malloy's broken leg. The tension broke when Vag's Princeton Ensign strode up and bet the Eli that Harvard would win. Vag had always claimed you couldn't tell a Princeton from a Yalie, but any Charlie who put money on Harvard was Vag's buddy. This even deserved another drink...
...young men in Cardiff, Wales, the Cudlipp brothers-Percy, Reginald and Hugh-had a long-standing family bet on which would be the youngest editor of a Fleet Street newspaper. The Cudlipps were sons of a traveling salesman who could not afford to send any of them to college, so they started in journalism early. At twelve, Percy was sending poetry regularly to the South Wales News. Two years later he got a job as a copy boy on the paper, soon after became a reporter. Reg, five years younger, started on Cardiff's Western Mail and South Wales...
Hugh started out in Cardiff as his brothers did, arrived in London, at 20, as features editor of the Sunday Chronicle. He won the family bet when he was named editor of the huge Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,046,640) at 24. and became the youngest newspaper editor on Fleet Street. This year he also became editorial director of the Pic's sister, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), biggest daily newspaper in the world. Meanwhile. Percy moved over to the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,965,504) in 1938, two years later became its editor...
...Different Color. In Paris, police charged 18 slaughterhouse workers with stealing 20 million francs' ($57,142) worth of fats from the horses they slaughtered, selling it to soap factories, using the money to bet on the races...