Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the summer doldrums, newspapers give away free dishes, free trips to Miami, free encyclopedias, free almost anything-just to keep circulation going. This summer, Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror is simply giving away money. By last week, after one month of its "Lucky Bucks Treasure Hunt," the Mirror had tossed out some...
...rules of the treasure hunt are simple. Each day the Mirror prints the serial numbers of 14 to 19 "Lucky Bucks": dollar bills put into circulation via gas stations, food counters, newsstands, department stores, taxicabs, etc. Anyone who spots a Lucky Buck can claim his treasure -ranging from $25 for an ordinary Lucky Buck to $1,000 for the "giant" variety...
Noah's Basement. In Canandaigua, N.Y., after neighbors complained that Mrs. Coddie Hunt's pets were making too much noise, she revealed that she had in her cellar three dogs, 34 cats, a dozen roosters and guinea hens, and two calves...
After a quiet crossing from New York on the S.S. Flandre, Author Ernest Hemingway bared his teeth for Paris photographers at the Ritz when asked to appraise a salmon caught by his host, Charles Ritz, son of the late, famed Hotelkeep César Ritz. Before going on to hunt elephants in Africa, Hemingway hoped to do some fishing in the Pyrenees, told a French reporter he was traveling light with two fishing rods, two revolvers and no typewriter. "I started my writing career with a typewriter," he said. "Today I use a pencil...
Studying law at the University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...