Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hokum & Horseplay. To his celebrity friends, to budding sportswriters and the pathetic heavyweights he fed in the forlorn hope of some day owning a champ, Runyon was a hokum-laden, horseplaying, teetotaling, coffee-drinking (up to 40 cups a day, some said) legend. It was a legend clad neatly and gaudily in $200 suits, loud Charvet ties, studs and cuff links made out of gold pieces-and shoes at $50 a pair, broken in for him by the late Hype Igoe, a sports scribe who also wore size 5B. Like most rich Broadwayites, Runyon commuted from Manhattan to Miami...
Until the authorities acted, the lepers could afford to wait. In Burma, social outcasts help each other. The lepers were being fed with rice donated by cemetery workers, who occupy the lowest rank in Burmese society...
Seventy-five percent of the Germans' families live in a group of apartment houses at Landshut, Bavaria, where they are fed twice as well as the Germans outside. Chief complaint of the German scientists is the slowness of their mail (six weeks from Germany) and the absence of their families. As soon as possible, the Army promises, families will be brought over. The first batch sailed last week. The Germans see a new hope in that fact. Some day, they have been told, they may have a chance to become U.S. citizens. The fact that the U.S. is bringing...
...When he had arranged his programs, Brailowsky memorized all 172 pieces. In 22 years he has played the cycle 15 times in Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and New York. Never before has his Chopin marathon sold sot well in Manhattan, helped this year by the movie-fed boom in Chopin...
...touch & go. Silver-spoon-fed William Force Dick, half-brother of John Jacob Astor, was out $200-odd. The way the sheriff told it, handsome Sportsman Dick picked up the wrong hitchhikers-three young men who produced a gun, made him drive them all the way from Long Island to Manhattan, took his money and let him go in darkest Harlem...