Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lobby later, the performers waited expectantly like freshmen on fraternity row as club presidents rushed out to sign some, ignored others. Tong II Han won a good half a dozen bookings right off. Singer Friedlander got a few nibbles ("They took all my brochures; I am told that this is a good sign"), and by last week Harpist Rensch had found a few bookings in the mail. For newcomers, Mrs. Clark's auditions may be the first real break (young Edgar Bergen did monologues for women's clubs before he got his first dummy), and for oldtimers, they...
...CARGO PLANES will soon be ordered by Pan American World Airways, which plans to begin service by early 1960s. Cargo jets could handle five-times-greater loads annually than present cargo aircraft, may cut cargo rates in half, says Pan Am President Juan Trippe...
...models, including starfish-and boomerang-shaped pools, priced from $2,800, expect sales to top $10 million. For the nation's largest pool-equipment maker, Swimquip, Inc. of El Monte, Calif., the torrent of 1959 business has come so fast that all materials allocated for the first half were used up in the first quarter. Said President William O. Baker: "This year the business has gone crazy...
Saturday's trouble all started in the bottom half of the first when Cornell moundsman Larry Fuller hit Chet Boulris square on his batting helmet. This action aggravated Boulris who started for Fuller but then proceeded to first base. Feelings still ran high, resulting in a physical exchange between Boulris and Big Red first sacker Ron Ivkovich...
Umpires Threadgold and Mahan had barely gotten the situation under control, when Charlie Ravenel was hit by another Fuller pitch. With bat upraised, Ravenel charged after Fuller but stopped half-way to the mound...