Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading 10 to 0 at half time. Frankie, whose passes were misfiring, got grimmer each time he trotted in to the bench (which was each time his team lost the ball). Often he picked up a telephone and asked: "What have you got for me?" Up in the press box, armed with binoculars, an assistant coach gave him a G-2 fill-in (Sample: "Their ends are playing wide, so try a stop-and-go to pull them in, then pass. Trap the tackle on the left side of the line...
...Beverly Hills for a quiet apartment and studio in Manhattan's upper East side (and has become a U.S. citizen). Gone are the days of which he complains, "I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more." He still commands the biggest box office of any living concert musician, but is sticking to his resolve to perform only six months of the year and not more than twice a week...
...Ultrafax is no table-top trinket. In the cut of the receiving apparatus, a "flying spot" of light is in the cylinder at the upper right. The film runs through the square camera box below it. The rest of the big cabinet is full of electron tubes and "monitoring" equipment. The pretty girl, the clock and the book are decorations...
...full of bounce as a jack-in-the-box, the booming U.S. toy industry this week was working around the clock to fill the biggest Christmas stocking in history. With 24 million new customers born since 1940, and plentiful materials for the first time since war's end, the toymakers expect to ring up record 1948 retail sales of $300 to $400 million, at least 20% above...
...Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...