Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon. Symbolic items in the Secretary of State's baggage: 1) a flop-brimmed straw hat that "cost about $1.98," and 2) a Brooks Brothers shirt box stuffed with paperback mysteries...
Thus last week Betty Grable, for six years Hollywood's top female box-office attraction, hit the comeback trail-with both legs. Idle in the movies since 1955's How To Be Very, Very Popular ("It was a turkey"), she had allowed herself to be talked into preparing a nightclub routine for the plush, high-priced Hollywood-Las Vegas-New York-Miami circuit. Explained the Latin Quarter's General Manager Ed Risman: "We booked her because of nostalgia." But for a packed house at her opening in New York, it was the night the old nostalgia burned...
...Bressoud led off with a home run. Outfielder Willie Mays hit a triple to deepest center field. First Baseman Orlando Cepeda walloped a 450-ft. home run, and Outfielder Jackie Brandt followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said. "We'll be there all the way this season, and if we win it, there may be no stopping us for five years to come." Nobody seemed to mind that the Giants...
...Businessmen Walter Shapiro and Morris Speizman thought up Insuratrip, Inc. Motorists seeing an Insuratrip sign at gas stations dial a designated local agent's telephone number, buy coverage at the rate of 25? per $2,500 per day, up to $25,000, deposit coins in a coin box placed close to the telephone. The policy itself is mailed to the insured's beneficiary by the agent. In operation only since December, Insuratrip now does business in four eastern states, has applied for permission to operate in 30 more...
...pitched the first three innings and gave up four runs, but EdWadsworth, an erratic pitcher last year, entered the game in the fourth and allowed the Marines only one hit for the rest of the contest. The Crimson had the pleasure of knocking Carl Hubbell, Jr., out of the box with three runs in the second frame and went on from there to pick up four more runs on four hits and eight Quantico errors. In these games the hits were well distributed among the players, and the pitching and fielding were both excellent for early season play...