Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sporting Life has long tolerated a screwball tradition. Best-known character in its raffish staff of olden days was its longtime (1925-37) editor, a retired army captain named Chris Towler. From writing for a dog magazine, Towler learned a deft touch with copy, prodded staffers into developing a brisk, racy style. But he gambled heavily and badly, often forced his reporters to open accounts at banks where he was overdrawn in order to get a supply of blank checks...
Bookie v. Tote Board. When Towler died, Odhams turned the paper over to A. B. Clements, who became a reporter at 14, worked his way up on the Sporting Life rewrite desk. Brisk, red-faced Editor Clements (called "A.B.C." by his reporters) runs a 55-man staff, every one willing at all times to bet on almost any issue, including how long it will take a fly walking up a wall to get to the ceiling...
During their 19 years as professional partners, Charlie Goren, 57, and Helen Sobel, 48, have copped just about every top bridge trophy at one time or another. Back in 1942 they took the Life Masters cup, but it has eluded them ever since. Last week, despite a brisk start, they lagged in ninth place at the end of the third round (each round consists of 26 deals). On the fourth and final round, they encountered this deal (North-South vulnerable...
...Damascus to Baghdad. (From the Herald's foreign desk to Mossman came the wry plea: "For God's sake, put up the meter flag!") TIME-LIFE'S Correspondent Robert Morse and Photographer Larry Burrows made it along the same route, found Baghdad street peddlers doing a brisk trade hawking pictures of the mutilated bodies of Premier Nuri asSaid and Crown Prince Abdul Illah until midweek, when the new regime suddenly ordered their suppression...
...week's end, Fanfani, still moving with brisk efficiency, which has won him the nickname "Il Motorino" (the little motor), got confirmed as Premier by a Senate margin of 17 votes, and this week faces the more crucial Chamber of Deputies, where he is expected to be confirmed only narrowly...