Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years writing songs, producing shows, collecting money and curvesome Swimmer Eleanor Holm, whom he married after a divorce from Fanny Brice. Last week Showman Rose revealed himself as a collector of art. Mr. Rose has some 20 canvases, mostly Old Masters, which he began buying a year aro to hang in his house on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place...
...important experience he gained in 1939. Ted Lyman and Tom Grover will be held in reserve. Flanking Ayres will be a pair of rugged Juniors, Dick Pfister and Chub Peabody, who progressed by leaps and bounds as Sophomores and in spring practice. They are beginning to get the hang of complicated cross-blocking assignments and should take greater strides toward stardom this fall. Joel Ferris, Jim Grunig, and Sophomore Sharpe are an average group of guard subs...
...behind last week's revival is 49-year-old Ben Lindheimer, Chicago real-estate operator who grew up within hollering distance of the original Washington Park. When he was seven, little Benny began to hang around the track, was given odd jobs such as checking the horses at the drinking trough on Derby day. Five years ago, Lindheimer's persistent hobby got the better of him. Hearing that Colonel Matt Winn* wanted to sell Washington Park (gradually being overshadowed by Chicago's newer, swankier Arlington Park), Lindheimer bought controlling interest in the track, became its managing director...
About Sept. 1 he plans to launch a new promotion drive. On it and the amount of new reader-appeal he can put into his paper will probably hang the fate of his experiment in journalism...
...United States, heard news of a matter about which plain citizens could only speculate. It was word of the powerful British Fleet (see p. 16). Like an echo blurring as it bounded back, that historic whisper turned into rumors that did not quite make sense, statements that did not hang together, fragmentary speculation whose point people could not quite catch. And it was drowned out by the clamorous news from Philadelphia, where on the sixth ballot of the 22nd Republican National Convention, Wendell Willkie of Indiana was nominated for President...