Word: greyhounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government student grant of $11 a month and took himself to Paris, where miraculously he found himself accepted as a temporary pupil at the Beaux-Arts. He remained a student for 14 years. To stay alive, he sold coal and wood, painted houses, acted as a "jockey" at the greyhound races (he held the leashes...
...midst of nowhere was once a quiet summer resort. Today the town has 5,000 year-round residents, two weekly newspapers, a radio station, and a busy branch of the Bank of America. Even in winter, a parade of chain-clad cars and as many as 30 Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers...
Died. Edward John Baker, 90, owner of the great trotter Greyhound, millionaire benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...
...services. American Express won a hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American Express then scored by adding a galaxy of nonrestaurant services: Western Union, Greyhound Bus, Avis and Hertz car rentals, Kinney Parking Systems, Kelly Girls for temporary office help. Amexco spread the word that in any of its 303 international offices, a cardholder could charge a ticket or tour to any spot in the world. In return, Diners' Club, which already boasts such nonrestaurant services...
...Genet opened, many of them in small cities that cannot support them. To jack up the company, he will also promote package tours, charter service and express delivery. But his tour is limited; he must step out on his 65th birthday-in November of 1959-unless the board scraps Greyhound's mandatory retirement rule...