Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dragged inside, other club members wagered on whether he was dead or just unconscious. This so shocked a parson that he cried out: "I protest! I believe that if the last trumpet were sounded, [Britons] would bet on whether it was a puppet show or the last Day of Judgment...
...Lightning Judgment." Hill's takes thousands of bets by word of mouth, some just before race time, but a dispute is almost unknown, even though British law does not recognize gambling debts. Nevertheless, Hill's credit losses run to only 0.5% of the total, a record that a department store might envy...
After eight years in power, Tweed finally fell-and fell hard. His reign was exposed, and he was eventually sentenced to a year in jail for forgery, grand larceny and conspiracy. Later, a $6,000,000 civil judgment was returned against him. When asked his occupation for the jail records, Tweed replied: "Statesman." With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children. Reason: the cartoon had shown Tweed clutching two symbolic ragamuffins. Tweed was returned...
Most present TV drama is pretty bad. But some of it, coping with the unique nature of the medium, is surprisingly good. TV's outstanding writer, Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky, perhaps tooting his own horn a bit, has been led to the questionable judgment that "the best dramatic writing done in our country is being done on television." What cannot be questioned is that TV dramatists have an unparalleled opportunity. For fancy pay they are shaping a new art form, one that lacks the range of the movies and the immediacy of the theater, but has more intimacy than either...
...confidence in Little Joe and his Hambletonian-bound colt Scott Frost is getting to be a habit. Just the week before, at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, the same pair were odds-on favorites when they won the $15,000 Old Country Trot. Today, when bettors back their judgment of the wagon ponies to the tune of $444 million a year at 81 tracks around the U.S., Little Joe is a standout driver wherever he appears...