Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers' musical importance -Rodgers & Hart, like Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, are graded AA or tops-they each get about $18,000 a year. In a good year, their total income is upwards of $100,000. They insist they are not the biggest moneymakers in their field, though they have no idea...
...some 5,000,000 players (men and tomboys) and 200,000 teams (sponsored by churches, movie stars, saloons, banks) with names ranging from Slapsie Maxie's Curvacious Cuties to Bank of America Bankerettes. In Los Angeles there are 9,000 Softball clubs within a hundred miles of Wrigley Field (1,000 of them are women's teams...
...tournament was the 3-to-0 women's final, in which the Kriegs' pitcher, jolly Bessie Johnson, held the Down Drafts of Chicago hitless until two were out in the last inning, then Marge Brown of the Chicago team smacked the ball down the right field foul line for a double...
...Spectator Vines watched Defending Champion Johnny Goodman, the last of the Walker Cuppers, ousted by Connecticut socialite Dick Chapman, who took a nip of whiskey out of a Coca-Cola bottle after every hole, kept the gallery in suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates...
...between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl dropkicker (Joan Davis) miss a crucial field goal...