Word: gins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening in 1948 Sack returned to a gin rummy game he had just left to retrieve a forgotten gold pencil. At the table, he fell into conversation with another player, ended up lending him $10,000 to renovate a movie house in Lowell, Mass. The loan eventually expanded into a $200,000 investment in three theaters. When his partner decided to sell out, Sack suddenly found himself in the theater business. "What did I know about theaters?" he asks. "About as much as John Dillinger knew about being Pope...
...Doris Day, who suddenly realizes she is not THAT KIND OF GIRL. "I always carry a spare," says Cary Grant, with a shark-toothed grin. Doris knows that the best way to repulse a man is to look repulsive. She develops a rash, and Cary spends the night playing gin rummy with another sugarless daddy. Bye-bye baby, says Cary, suggesting that she return to the sanctity of Upper Sandusky...
...file-voiced pal, Audrey Meadows. Back flies Doris to the love lair. The "Baron von Richthofen of the boudoir'' follows, but this time Cary finds Doris totally crocked, with her big toe stuck in the neck of an empty fifth. He gets to play a lot of gin rummy this...
During that same period. Commercial Solvents also sold industrial alcohols, another Weizmann byproduct; and in 1933, with the repeal of the 18th Amendment, the company for a time supplied some of the makings of Old Mr. Boston and Gordon's gin. During World War II, Commercial Solvents became the first firm to mass-produce penicillin; it also developed a crystalline form of the drug, which could be transported in bulk without refrigeration...
...decision, in fact, was ratified on St. Patrick's Day, on his 30th transatlantic air crossing. "I was huddled up front with the kids," recalled Buchwald's wife Ann. "Dawn was coming up. Art stood over me. He looked grubby. He'd lost $100 playing gin rummy with a stranger-a stranger to me anyway. 'You know.' he said. 'I'm thinking about going back. How would you like it?' I said I thought it'd be marvelous. I was thinking about the new curtains I was going to have...