Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rummy, as played in Hollywood, is not always a gentleman's game. Even so, the games at the Friars' Club over a ten-month period during 1962 and 1963 were something out of the ordinary. Camera Industrialist Theodore Brislcin, for example, lost $220,000, Shoe Millionaire Harry Karl dropped $80,-000, and such cool hands as Phil Silvers, Zeppo Marx and Tony Martin lost heavily. An investigation by the FBI followed, and last week five players in the games (two real estate developers, an art collector, an investor and a professional card shark) were found guilty...
McCracken when he was a member of the three-man Council of Economic Advisers under President Eisenhower from 1956 to 1959. After he returned to Michigan, McCracken befriended a number of educators, auto company executives and newspaper publishers, some of whom dine with him every month in an informal club, relish his summations of the economic outlook. Since Election Day 1968, he has directed Nixon's policy task forces...
...sales will surpass the all-time peak of 9,300,000 set in 1965. Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share...
Moving to Marion, Ohio, young Harding dabbled in teaching, browsed briefly over law books, sold insurance, played his cornet at the roller-skating rink, and rode the bench as substitute first baseman on the town's ball club. He also began to master perhaps his most highly developed skill: draw poker...
Crimson Coach Bob Harrison is understandably wary of the Eagles. "They're a really good defensive club. They run well, they're quick, and they hit the boards hard," Harrison said. "To win, we'll have to take control and prevent them from running." B.C. has a 13-5 edge in the series with Harvard...