Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please ask that woman who found the box of love letters in her husband's car how much she will take for them. I am sure this concerns me. WILLING TO BUY Dear Abby...
...also pursued by adoring teenagers. Total strangers, men and women, hugged and kissed him in the street, flooded him with gifts, fan mail, flowers (one bouquet came from Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev). Women cried openly at his concerts; in Leningrad, where fans queued up for three days and nights to buy tickets, one fell out of her seat in a faint. When Moscow TV scheduled only the first half of Van's prizewinning performance, the advance protest from Muscovites was so furious that the station scheduled the whole recital, plus encores. Thereafter, in each of the four cities where...
...than five encores; he sat down at a piano everywhere and at the slightest provocation any hour of the day or night. He insisted on playing the whole of his Leningrad program at a rehearsal several hours before the evening concert for the benefit of conservatory students unable to buy tickets. When he visited Tchaikovsky's grave in Leningrad, he delighted his guides by taking some Russian earth back with him, plans to use it to plant a Russian lilac cutting at Rachmaninoff's grave near Valhalla in New York's Westchester County...
...Milwaukee batter one day in 1955. In the scramble to catch it, a fan knocked down Mrs. May Lee, 69, and broke a couple of her ribs. The Braves refused to pay May Lee's $100 hospital bill on the ground that fans assume certain risks when they buy their tickets. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an award of $3,675 to Mrs. Lee on the ground that the Braves' County Stadium ushers were negligent in their duty to protect spectators. In the past, ball clubs have rarely been held liable for similar injuries, and ball...
Seeking reasons for the auto slump, the Wall Street Journal pointed a finger at lazy salesmen in a memo to dealers: "There are hordes of people driving the streets today who are ready and able to buy a new car, if you'd only ask them." Last week the Journal got a rise out of William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone...