Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crack-Up. In Detroit, Mrs. Nelsa Moorhatch suffered a few bruises when she walked into a plane's whirling propeller and smashed it to pieces...
...spin on the ball that his opponent landed up in the bleachers trying to get his racket on it. If Riggs played in close, Big Jake blasted it straight down the middle. Usually, Kramer won his service in jig time, and then began a long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first, as if to say: "If you think you can beat him, you try it." Kramer beat Riggs...
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...club finished in the cellar. The trouble was more than peanut-eating: there had been too much all-night poker and drinking. Since then Manager Billy Herman had resigned, and several troublemakers were traded. Now the club is under the firm hand of Billy Meyer, who had managed the crack Yankee farm team in Kansas City, where he trained most of the top present-day Yankees...
Last week, as Vienna's concert season drew toward its close, it was obvious that no one would stop him for long. He is already scheduled to direct this summer's festival in his native Salzburg. Says crack Vienna Critic Heinrich Kralik: "He is still young and will grow. If he continues his development, he may achieve Toscanini." But, says cocksure Conductor Karajan, who once assisted Toscanini at the Salzburg festival: "Toscanini is Italian and I'm an Austrian. Nothing comes of emulating another conductor...