Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times -and crammed with news of the six communities it serves. Says the editor of a prospering middle-sized Illinois daily: "The Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press come into our towns like a ton of bricks. But we cover the local news like a tent over a dime. For us. the biggest news in the world is that Mrs. Murphy painted her outhouse red this morning...
...care what I say to the press," Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton, 45, said to the press as she disembarked in Manhattan. "You used to frighten me. I used to shiver and shake . . . and usually I would say the wrong thing." Unwittingly illustrating her point, she added: "It's most unfortunate that I can't travel with an enchanting young man without all this talk starting!" The enchanting young man: sleek, suave Philip Van Rensselaer, 30, a onetime Manhattan model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent...
...Stars and Stripes when I was twenty-five. Most men in their twenties don't know their way around yet. I think it's the goddam system of women schoolteachers.' I told him that I wanted to write, and he snarled, 'Writers are a dime a dozen, Thurber. What I want is an editor. I can't find editors. Nobody grows up. Do you know English?' I said I thought I knew English. 'Everybody thinks he knows English,' he said, 'but nobody does. I think it's because...
...A.F.L. charter, moved his boys into the Teamsters Union, taken over the trusteeship of debt-ridden Teamster Local 299 in Detroit. Singlemindedly, he shoved ahead. "In those days," says Hoffa in his rough, staccato voice, "Detroit was the toughest open-shop town in the country. It was like a dime crime novel, with all the shootings and slug-gings. I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles that I can't ever remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back. Guys who tried to break me up got broken...
...fugit blues." He was depressed by all the "fresh, bright faces" around him, especially when one of them got a major promotion in the company. "It's a bitter day when some stripling outstrips you," he groaned. "You earn a place in the sun-no bigger than a dime-and it's contested every minute." Indeed, it seemed high time to trim the "Mason-Dixon line" with some low-calorie food, have his molars fixed and make a mild pass at a pretty young waitress. On such a scarred old whetstone, durable (57) Actor Elliott Nugent honed...