Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with another spring on the way, anti-foreign mobs burned the British Consulate-General in Canton, rioted in Shanghai's streets.* More perilous to the cause of Nationalist China were the gathering Communist offensives all the way from sub-zero Manchuria down to the fertile "rice bowl" of the south...
...less excited. He did get a job speaking lines, of a sort. They were spoken very sharply and very fast at a World's Fair ride called the Meteor Speedway. The lines began: "A-thrill-a-second-a-mile-a-minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part of New Jersey. He once fell asleep...
...boss couldn't do anything worse than say no. So Edward Breslin, 21, a $45-a-week cub Hearstling on the Detroit Times and a rabid sports fan, screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...
...Reporter Breslin stood at the side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...
After 14 days and about 40 thumbed rides, Breslin got to the West Coast with $22.16 left. By the time he had promoted a free ride into the Rose Bowl as one of the chauffeurs for the Michigan team, he was almost as big a celebrity back home as Michigan's Bob Chappuis (see SPORT). An eight-column, Page One banner headline in the Times gagged: 89,999 PAYING FANS AND BRESLIN TO SEE ROSE BOWL GAME. At week's end, Breslin and Michigan were both winners. Editor MacLellan, who had had his money's worth, sent...