Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
Coming into the stretch, the leader drifted wide and a bay colt named Solidarity flashed to the front. In a grand stand box, slim, blonde Owner Bernice Goldstone let out a shriek. Two and a half years ago she and her father, Track Caterer Harry Curland, had attended an auction of Louis B. Mayer horses. Curland quit bidding on Solidarity at $20,000, but when his daughter said, "Daddy, I want that horse," he went to $21,000 and got him. By winning the Gold Cup (and equaling Seabiscuit's mile-and-a-quarter track record...
...florid man with the brush haircut rose, walked over to the jury box and grasped the rail with both hands. His manner was cozy. "We've all been here a long time," he confided, "and I feel I have come to know you well." Then he began buttering up: "In this sanctuary of justice, a holy place, to me second only to a church, I see you not as just twelve ladies and gentlemen. I see you strong, resolute and courageous soldiers of justice...
...initial fund of $10 million should be ready for loans to qualified producers of "A"' films. The conditions: a rotating committee of exhibitors will pass on stories, casts and budgets to make sure that they beat in tune with "the pulse of the public" as felt at the box office. Even if some studios do not need financing, they may get the company's advice free...
...Hollywood, most independent producers rubbed their hands at the prospect of the theater owners' largesse. But a few feared that the exhibitors would drive hard loan terms and might spend more time meddling on the sound stages than feeling pulses at the box office...