Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just getting a crack at Sugar Ray was the toughest scrap of all. Jenson had to settle for 12½% of the gate, or $20.915. Robinson pocketed $78,190 of the gate receipts, plus $60,000 of the TV and radio income, of which Fullmer got none...
...silver punch bowl lost to the Aussies for the second successive year, wishful-thinking U.S. fans salvaged some consolation from Giammalva's performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right after the matches to turn pro. For a $65,000 guarantee and 25% of the gate receipts over $300,000, plus a 5% bonus if he beats Pro Champ Pancho Gonzales, Rosewall will go on a 13-month tour with Jack Kramer's traveling tennists. But the sad truth is that even with Rosewall gone, Australia has a thick layer of talented young players to throw against...
...bright, moonlit night, and so, after entertaining Painter John Millais and his son at dinner, Wilkie Collins decided to see them home. Strolling together along the semirural roads of northern London, the three friends were halted suddenly by a piercing scream, and from out the gate of a villa dashed a young woman "dressed in flowing white robes that shone in the moonlight." Painter Millais exclaimed: "What a beautiful woman!", while Novelist Collins disappeared into the night crying: "I must see who she is and what's the matter...
...Hyde Park Gate home in London, Sir Winston Churchill, physically feeble and mentally overwhelming, turned 82, presided over a small family party that included an assault on a spectacular cake topped off with 82 candles shaped in Sir Winston's "V" for victory trademark. When photographers outside clamored for him, Churchill came to a window with wife Clementine and gap-toothed grandchild Arabella. 7, daughter of Randolph. After posing indoors for other lensmen, Churchill heard a game try at felicitation from one. "Sir Winston," called the photographer, "I hope to take your picture on your hundredth birthday...
This one I can't pass up. TIME, Nov. 12, says, "Estes Kefauver, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, factory gate." By comparison, our Multigraph running top speed at 6,300 impressions per hour goes Bang! Bang...