Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn half of the inning, the hard-fighting Dodgers smashed out two home runs, but they were not enough...
...seven years as a sportwriter on the New York Journal-American, Hearstling Jeane Hoffman has covered everything from a frog-jumping contest to the World Series and the Belmont Stakes. ("I'm so tall," she says, "I have to interview jockeys sitting down.") In between, hard-boiled Reporter Hoffman found time to toss off some sport features for the Gazette. In naming her executive editor, Publisher Harold H. Roswell gave her orders to try to recapture the Gazette's bygone glories as the "sportsmen's bible...
...company went through bankruptcy reorganization in 1940. The new management figured that those who came in for cigarettes and tobacco might also walk out with a shirt or tie. Many did. But since men who knew tobacco best were running things, the haberdashery business was not pushed very hard. It failed to halt a decline in sales, and profits shriveled to a paltry...
...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
Flowers of Hawaii sells about 85% of its orchids for giveaways and other promotion stunts, but it is hard at work setting up "orchid bars" in U.S. stores to sell the flowers for as little as 25?. There are 21 orchid bars in the U.S. now; the newest one will open this week in Richmond, Va. While low prices have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have...