Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). Pinch-hitting for Commentator Drew Pearson...
...some time trouble had been bubbling up around Britain's most popular sport, dog racing, which gained adherents in wartime when horse racing was virtually suspended, drew 30,000,000 fans to Harringay, White City and the 102 other British tracks last year. During the war, when there was not much else to gamble on, the customers thought there was dirty work but nobody did anything about it. (One suspected tactic: giving the favorite a bucket of water to drink just before post time, so that he bogged down...
...sixth annual carnival-tournament, flamboyant Promoter May drew the biggest crowds ever to see a golf tournament. They saw Herman Barren 36, a stocky, swarthy veteran from White Plains, N.Y., score an 8-under-par 280 to beat the big names. It was worth $10.500. Ellsworth Vines, ex-tennis champ who turned to golf in 1940 because he considered it less monotonous, came his closest yet to winning a major tournament, taking the $4,325 second money with a 281. Vines was one of twelve pros who refused to wear an identification number; if he had worn one like...
...Drew Pearson, brash breathless Washington columnist, starred in the publicity trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit...
Harold L. Ickes (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). The old Curmudgeon subs for Drew Pearson...