Word: fireplugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Covering his 25th Kentucky Derby last spring, Hearstling Sportwriter Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum gratified his readers by picking the race one-two-three-four. Hereafter they will have to depend on someone else for their forecasts. Easygoing, fireplug-shaped Columnist Corum was named last week to succeed the late Colonel Matt Winn (TIME, Oct. 17) as president of the American Turf Association and Churchill Downs, i.e.) impresario of the Derby...
Citizen's Reward. In Columbus, Ga., after civic-mindedly cropping the two-year growth of grass which had been hiding a fireplug, Horace Gordon was the first to pay a $6 fine for parking near the newly exposed hydrant...
Under the Portrait. In the Defense Ministry, stubby Pérez Jiménez strode from telephone to telephone like an animated fireplug, gushing orders. The reports were soon in: every garrison in the country had supported Chief of Staff Pérez; hardly a shot had been fired...
...last summer the Detroit Tigers pussyfooted along as tame as tabby cats, getting spotty pitching and mediocre hitting. When they finished in the second division, it was a cinch that fireplug-shaped Manager Steve O'Neill would be looking for another job. He is. Last week the Tigers' millionaire owner, Walter O. Briggs Sr., surprised nearly everybody by signing up quiet, efficient Red Rolfe, 40, the old Yankees' onetime third-baseman. Rolfe, who is head of the Tigers' farm system, has never managed a ball club before...
Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...