Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resent Cal's crack down. Pitcher Grant, one of the late-to-beds fined by Ermer, wants to be traded. But most respect his toughness, and the team's new dedication to duty ("They're playing for their lives," explained a Minnesota newsman) shows in the box scores. Since Ermer took over, the Twins have played 25 games that were decided by one run-and they have won 14 of them, including a 3-2 victory over the White Sox last week that won them the league lead...
...Tais. In Honolulu, tourists line up for blocks for his three shows a night at Duke Kahanamoku's 700-seat club. On the mainland, he has done sellout business from the Royal Box of Manhattan's Americana Hotel to Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove, where he holds the house record. His fans range from Lyndon Johnson's sister Rebekah Bobbitt, who attended a party welcoming him to New York, to Jacqueline Kennedy, who caught his first show at the Duke's on her visit to Hawaii last year, stayed right through to the 3 a.m. closing...
Then came World War II-and with it a boom in letter writing, mostly between forlorn servicemen and their wives and girls. Katz came up with Rite-Kit, an inexpensive stationery box that doubled as a writing surface. He formed his own company, and by war's end it was grossing $1,500,000 a year...
...Prince Akihito, the city had scheduled a gala performance of Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, and Juan Carlos Ongania, the retired general who seized power last year, had agreed to attend. Ongania was not enjoying himself. In the middle of the performance, he rose from the presidential box and ushered his wife and 28-year-old daughter Sara to the rear. Rite of Spring, he informed Mayor Eugenio Schettini the next day, was a dirty ballet and should not be permitted in Buenos Aires. "My wife and daughter had to look at indecencies performed by seminude dancers...
...Everyone who had access is a suspect." Marylou discovered the theft just before going out to a dinner in honor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is playing at this year's Saratoga Performing Arts Center, one of Sonny's pet projects. She went to get her jewel box, stashed away between blankets in the linen closet ("one of my four secret places," she says), and discovered the jewels were missing. "I had to go through the whole party without anybody knowing," she recalls. "I drank lots of champagne and tried to look happy. But I felt miserable...