Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as that post. I'm not a very good loser." Then Cliff Mooers climbed to his box in the stone grandstand at Keeneland track. The odds board showed that his horse, a long-barreled chestnut named Old Rockport, was 4-5 to win the $20,000 Blue Grass Stakes, his last big test race before the Kentucky Derby...
...Blue Grass Stakes, Old Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...
...room might have been any big-city political headquarters. On the wall hung a map bristling with red, blue and yellow pins. In one corner stood a Mimeograph. Pamphlets, posters and handbills littered the floor and tables, and two purposeful young women pounded energetically on typewriters. But the bald, cheerful man who presided over this well-ordered confusion last week wore a clerical collar. From his command post in an old brownstone mansion near London's Victoria Station, the Rev. Frank Cecil Tyler was directing the "Mission to London"-the biggest evangelical drive the Church of England had ever...
...with the maintenance men, too. On a tip, she hustled to the McDonnell Aircraft plant and told President James McDonnell: "Jim, if you're going to paint, I think we can do the job better than anyone else." She did, concocting special shades christened "McDonnell maroon" and "banshee blue" (after the company's fighter plane...
...this razzle-dazzle fashion, American Safety Razor Corp.'s showman President Milton Dammann introduced a smooth-shaving new razor blade called Silver Star, made of a new metal called "Duridium" (a hard-alloy steel). With it, Dammann was out to crowd Gillette's famed Blue Blade out of the No. 1 spot in the blade market. Dammann planned to spend $2,000,000 on the promotion campaign because his company needed that kind of boost. In this year's first quarter its profits had dropped from...