Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbus, Ohio...
...will take more than talk, though, to get Pete Rademacher back in the ring with Patterson. This time it took a $250,000 guarantee put up by Pete's employer, an amorphous corporation named Youth Unlimited, Inc. founded in Columbus, Ga., for the avowed purpose of promoting clean-cut professional athletes who will be a credit to sport. For their money, Pete's backers promoted themselves little more than a trip to the Northwest. Their share of the gate was less than half of what they spent, and there are rumors that Patterson's manager...
...Examples: the Shriners maintain 17 hospitals for crippled children; the Knights of Columbus donate $1,000,000 a year to charities; the Loyal Order of Moose operates a campus-style home for 800 needy offspring of deceased members...
...bingo, dancing, and a good bar." In San Mateo, Calif., the Elks boosted attendance from 40% to 70% of enrolled membership by installing a swimming pool. In bone-dry Princeton, Ky. (pop. 5,388), one lodge makes its slot machines and beer parlor a drawing card. The Knights of Columbus' San Salvador Council No. 1 in New Haven, Conn, holds "National Nights," when it serves up Irish, Italian or Polish dinners. But the new devices have yet to boost attendance at solemn, often boring business meetings. Says one Boise (Idaho) Moose: "We have lots of social members, very...
Controlled Emotion. In Columbus, Ohio, the state highway safety department, making a survey of drivers who had one-car accidents last year, recorded an 18-year-old's admission that he went 85 m.p.h. around an Scurve, in a car he had never driven before, on a rainy night, over a railroad track, with one arm around his girl...