Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lightest gay-sad story is about two Irish Trappist monks who have put everything in the world behind them-except making secret bets with each other on the horses. The loser pays the winner in Hail Marys for both their souls...
Show-Me State. In key Missouri, the Democrats scored an upset. The victor: tall, silver-haired Phil M. Donnelly, veteran state legislator. The loser: his fellow townsman (Lebanon) Jean Paul Bradshaw...
...Biggest loser to the pirates was Goodyear Aircraft Corp., makers of fighting planes. When the loss of 60 men hurt production, Goodyear complained. WMC cracked down hard, ordered all hijacked workers back to .their former jobs. Two shops got around the order by taking the hijacked men into partnership...
...four weeks until Jack Lynch, Navy V-12, won the finals. As all proceeds go to the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross there were no cash awards, but the first and second men received certificates of merit from the U.S.L.T.A. As an added inducement this year the loser will pay for the tennis balls unless both players agree otherwise...
...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...