Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leather chairs, paintings, and drapes with a wine bottle motif, suggested small-scale cocktail parties for Parlor B, and not the official headquarters of the Massachusetts Committee for Taft. On the center hors d'hoeuvres table, were pamphlets telling why "Bob Taft is the GOP's best bet for '52." The pamphlets, a poster of a grinning baby elephant on the wall, a filing cabinet, and Taft-for-President buttons on every lapel signaled the switch from cocktails to politics...
...Schuman as Foreign Minister and Georges Bidault in Defense. Faure's cabinet, in fact, looks much like the last one, except that it is weaker at the top: Edgar Faure, on the record, is no match for Rene Pleven, who is now jobless. No one was ready to bet that Faure would last long...
Some commercial shows have, so far, baffled the network's biggest brains. How, they wonder, can culture be slipped even edgewise into such programs as Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life and the Red Skelton Show...
...stand far less chance of winning than the women. To most European male skiers, the sport is less a sport than a career that success can further into a profession; most U.S. skiers are college men with other careers in mind. Among the U.S. men, the best bet is Salt Lake City's Jack Reddish, on Navy leave, who won a fourth in the 1950 F.I.S. (Fédération Internationale de Ski) world championships...
Trains & Tows. A better bet is Andy Mead Lawrence. At the Swiss championships last week, Andy swooped down the mountainside with the rush and sparkle of a Vermont freshet, and was right up with the winners: second in the tricky slalom (behind Switzerland's Madeleine Berthod); third in the daredevil downhill (behind Austria's Trude Beiser, the U.S.'s Janette Burr), where sheer speed is the payoff; first in the giant slalom, where both speed and control count...