Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history." In New York, Scott fought with waiters, and Zelda danced on dinner tables. They went wading in public fountains and tried to undress at the Scandals. No matter how much he wrote, Fitzgerald was continually in debt. By 1924, he was living at a $36,000-a-year clip. Two years earlier, he had published The Beautiful and Damned, the story of a rich idler's moral collapse. It had the same faults as Paradise, and most sound critics, Wilson included, gave it the raps it deserved. But his short stories, some of them excellent, sold as well...
...third period got under way, the Chicago Black Hawks began throwing everything but their skates at Rookie Terry Sawchuk. Four times, square-jawed Goalie Sawchuk coolly turned aside solo sweeps by Black Hawk attackers who were rifling the puck in toward the net at an 80-m.p.h. clip. Six times more, in wild gang melees in front of Detroit's cage, Sawchuk's quick eye and split-second reactions safely smothered the puck...
Businessmen might be pessimistic about the future, but Wall Street took a cheerful view. Day after President Truman's mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore...
...start of this week, the market moved up at even a faster clip. In the biggest day's trading (4,490,000 shares) since the outbreak of the Korean war, the rail averages hit 76.01, up 2.63 in two days, and their highest point in nearly 20 years. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 231.03, up 6.33 points in two days, thanks chiefly to the scramble to buy oils, metals and aircraft stocks. A spectacular performer: Grumman Aircraft. After a two-for-one split, it soared from 22⅝ to 28¾ in four days...
...when I danced with the wife of the mayor of Fairbanks . . . she clapped me on the shoulder and exclaimed, 'Boy, you're some spieler!' " Still coming over loud & clear, radio's aging (72), clip-voiced Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn went after the reading public last week with his autobiographical Fifty Fabulous Years (Putnam...