Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fare Trial. In Worcester, Mass., Gordon Browne, put off a bus before his stop, after an argument with the driver, sued the Worcester Street Railway Co. for breach of contract. His claim...
...high-stepping Halfback Charlie Trippi. He showed up in Manhattan last week with the modern athlete's helper: a business manager. Trippi wanted to play both baseball and football. He began trading. The Boston Red Sox, who offered him a mere $30,000 to sign a baseball contract, were out of the running from the start. Then Trippi played off the New York Yankees (who own both football and baseball units) against Chicago's football Cardinals...
...enough." Charles Bidwell's Cardinals got him for an even $100,000 (for four years) and he was still free to peddle his baseball talents. A voice from football's faded past, that of Illinois' ex-Galloping Ghost Red Grange, spoke up: "Why, that $100,000 contract with the Chicago Cardinals is peanuts-absolutely peanuts. ... I got $50,000 for playing one game...
Hedy Lamarr, who wants to break a picture contract with Producer Arnold Pressburger because she expects a baby in March, lost a court fight to have her case heard before the baby arrives. "Miss Lamarr's condition," gravely deposed the producer, "came about not through any fault of my own, but due entirely to an act on the part of the plaintiff which was solely within the plaintiff's own control...
Married. Ely Culbertson, 55, autobiographer (The Strange Lives of One Man), high priest of contract bridge turned World Federalist; and Dorothy Renata Baehne (rhymes with sane), 21; he for the second time, she for the first; in Chandler, Ariz...