Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...
...quite two years after her death, executors of the estate of Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean asked court permission to sell some of her $591,107 worth of jewels so they could pay debts and taxes. Among the baubles: the fabled Hope Diamond, once spoken of in terms of millions, now appraised at $176,920. Last week's new figures also indicated that the McLeans bought it on credit in 1912 for $100,000 ($20,000 down, $1,000 a month...
...More." Red Rolfe does not expect Johnny to hit any .340 "right away in this league." There are still flaws in his batting; he swishes his bat back & forth nervously before each pitch, frequently wastes his power by swinging late. His fielding, too, still lacks polish. "All I hope is that they won't expect miracles this first year," warns a Tiger coach. "I'll bet you right now he'll make half a dozen throws to the wrong base early in the season...
Hormones have proved a failure in making older people feel younger, reported Pharmacologist Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, vice president of the University of Texas Medical Branch. But there is some hope, he said, in experimental work on vitamins as a means of making oldsters feel at least a little spryer. There seems no possibility of learning how to keep the heart, blood vessels and kidneys in first-class working condition deep into old age. But, asked Dr. Leake: "Do any of us want to? ... Will it not be possible for us some day to realize that death is a part...
Last week, Christie persuaded Republic Steel Corp. to come in on his deal. He sold the corporation approximately 20,000 shares in his Liberia Mining Co., Ltd. (no connection with Edward R. Stettinius Jr.'s Liberia Co.-TIME, Oct. 6, 1947). In two years, he and Republic hope to be shipping 1,000,000 tons a year from Monrovia to Republic and other U.S. steel mills...