Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Building a team as good as the Truckers in one season meant competing for talent with the five other fine N.I.B.L. teams* and bargaining against the moneymen of pro basketball as well. Kolowich hired former Notre Dame Footballer Jerry Groom to beat the drum and brought aggressive Johnny Dee from the University of Alabama to coach. Backed by the generous assets of DC Trucking's multimillion-dollar business, Groom and Dee peddled some convincing arguments in the fleshpots of college basketball...
When the Minneapolis Lakers made lanky Terry Rand their second-draft choice and offered him a $7,500 contract, Groom and Dee made a somewhat different pitch: Did Rand want to study law? Well, Denver U. had a fine law school, and an executive trainee with DC Trucking would have time for classes as well as practice sessions and some 30 games of basketball a season. A trainee would get $400 a month salary plus all the fringe benefits, including a sizable bonus. And who knows? Rand might like Denver Chicago and go on to make transcontinental trucking his career...
...Bribe & Groom. In Detroit, Mrs. Theres W. Gregg, 64, asked a court to annul her marriage to Harold Gregg, 61, whom she left four days after the ceremony, claimed Gregg proposed matrimony to her because "his father offered him a new car and some money if he would get married...
Suddenly the ballet master whispered to us from the wing. We backed off the stage and took hold of the cart containing the bridge and groom of the marriage ceremony. As we made the are across the stage, dancers whirled about us. "Hurry up," they whispered. We did not almost sent the cart careening into the orchestra pit. Putting the cart down, we leaned back in our most graceful posture of the evening. The happy couple spread their arms to the audience and the curtain fell...
...been the playmate of dull and plain little Princess Anne. When Author Rowse says bluntly that "Anne was in love" with Sarah, he is probably not exaggerating. For Sarah's smile Anne was prepared to do anything-and Sarah made sure she did. Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day. John was given command of the Anglo-Dutch armies, and with Sarah holding the fort at home, began his unrivaled series...