Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opening Day, the odds against the Indians, who haven't won an American League pennant since 1920, were 20-1. But in sport-crazy Cleveland, a record 73,163 fans crowded Municipal Stadium to watch Rapid Robert Feller, the highest-paid player in baseball ($87,000), pitch the Indians to a two-hit, 4-0 victory over the Browns. The Indians went on to win six straight...
...four sneak previews, audiences liked what they saw. Cracked Glass: "We are now solidly in a position to finance another million-dollar picture, but we haven't got a nickel for a cigar...
...team's chances tomorrow, can Harvard really upset the men from New Haven? The answer lies in the little word "if". If Captain Frank Gurley can bounce back after disposing of Wade in the mile to beat Stoltman in the 880. If Pat McCormick can get two seconds, maybe even a first and a second against Cook and Grimes in the hurdles...
...Edgar Parrett, who was named Queen for a Day to the tune of $35,000 (TIME, March 15), is worried because "a lot of the junk I won hasn't been delivered yet." She doesn't know what to do with her trailer: "I haven't used it at. all, not even once. It's parked here in the yard." Her Persian lamb coat had to be sent back ("They did not have my size; I need a much larger one"). She has stored her stove and refrigerator, but likes to ride around the Navajo reservation...
...William H. McCormick of Lock Haven, Pa. has taken up public life since winning the $17,590 Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) contest. "A lot of civic groups asked me to make speeches. I ran for the school board and made it. If I hadn't won the contest the town never would have put a woman on the school board." At first Mrs. McCormick was a cynosure: "People arrived from hundreds of miles around, just to look at me. They made pilgrimages . . . If I didn't come to the door, they peered in the windows...