Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Press moved into new offices on Randolph Street above Texas Guinan's old nightclub, news was waiting on the doorstep. Hearing a commotion in the street, Reporter Donald Coleman raced downstairs, found the cops chasing a fleeing prisoner, and phoned back a story on his recapture. Five minutes later, blue-inked, identical copies of Coleman's story were on city desks all over town...
...After five days of match play, the task of turning back the Americans fell squarely on the broad shoulders of 200-lb. Ulsterman Sam McCready. Not many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went...
...Golden, the Colorado School of Mines graduated its largest class (290 engineers) in style. Instead of a sheepskin, each graduate received a five-by-six-inch diploma of sterling silver. The text of each of the four-ounce plates had been photo-engraved, but President Ben H. Parker had to sign them all by hand. He used an electric vibrating scribe, a gadget that looked something like a fountain pen. Said President Parker: "There was nothing...
...theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the original Show Boat. For the next 15 years she did bits or sang in choruses in The Green Pastures, St. Louis Woman, Sing Out, Sweet Land!, etc. She also organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein saw her in audition for Talent '48, a private revue put on by the Stage Managers Club for their Broadway friends, that Juanita got headed for that "right role...
...critics complain that Stern's casualness about facts sometimes carries over into his straight announcing chores. At one Notre Dame football game Stern announced that a player named Zilly was off on an 80-yard run. As the ball carrier passed the five-yard line, Stern discovered that the incipient hero was actually named Sitko. With scarcely a fractional pause, Stern cried: "Zilly's just thrown a lateral to Sitko!" Sportcaster Ted Husing was still brooding about this when Stern, before starting his current racetrack telecasts from Belmont Park, asked him for pointers. "I can't help...