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...What You Gonna Do?" But Willie was something less than a whiz at the plate. Piper promised him a $5 monthly bonus for hitting more than .300, and Willie never collected. "Trouble was," says Piper, "he stood a little too close and stuck that left shoulder around in front of him like he was peekin' at the pitcher. He kept thinkin' for a while that all the pitchers were trying to hit him, but he was just crowdin...
...already made a "win and if" offer to the Barons' manager-$7,500 for Willie's contract, $7,500 more if he made good. Montague promptly upped the ante to a flat $10,000 for the Barons. After Willie's graduation, Montague offered him a personal bonus of $5,000. Willie signed on as a New York Giant...
Back at sea level Izzard was 18 lbs. lighter, but pounds (sterling) richer in bonus money. His feat made fat headlines and dazzling copy. It also gave him a clean beat on the Times, during the first crucial days of the expedition that conquered Mount Everest, though the Times beat everyone on the big story, the climb to Everest's summit...
...sharp upsurge in auto buying. In the first ten days of June, 20% more new cars were sold than in the comparable period of May. Used-car sales in May were also up 2.3% over 1953. Most of the increase was credited to harder selling by dealers, helped by bonus contests put on by the manufacturers. Dealers were also trying out all sorts of gimmicks on their...
...pushed through an electoral law providing that any group winning 50.1% of the popular vote should receive 64% of the chamber seats, a clear working majority. At election time the Reds challenged so many ballots that the Demo-Christians fell just 55,000 votes short of earning the electoral bonus; the law itself proved so unpopular that it is widely known as the legge truffa (fraud...