Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have had a hell of a tip." He was sure it was not a local bookie ("Every bookie in this town is a very close personal friend of mine," said Mickey firmly), nor imported Eastern gunmen. "I call New York, Chicago and Cleveland regular," said Mickey. "I'm a well-informed man. And I didn't get no rumble of anything going on ... If [Frank] Costello was moving in, we'd all be dead...
Louis B. Mayer, party of the first part in many a six-figure contract, had his own option picked up by Loew's, Inc. Presi dent Nicholas M. Schenck, who signed him up to head Loew's-owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a few more years...
...thought Wisconsin Boy had a chance in Chicago's rich ($74,975) Arlington Futurity was Owner W. M. Peavey, a paper-mill operator from Ladysmith, Wis. His Wisconsin Boy romped home, paying $38 for $2. At Detroit, a longshot named Our Request ($23.60) galloped off with the Rose Leaves Stakes. In the Betsy Ross Stakes at Boston's Suffolk Downs, Growing Up ($30.20) surprised the connoisseurs. Colonel Mike, winner of the Lamplighter Handicap at Monmouth Park (N.J.), paid $21.60. In New York, there was a slight delay while the judges examined the photograph after the $58,400 Butler...
Most spectators, including Princess Elizabeth, got their biggest chuckles from Rube Goldbergish efforts like W. Heath Robinson's Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week...
...doctors have not been able to tell, except by waiting for years, whether treatments for cancer were successful. But young (34) Dr. Philip M. West, senior research associate at the medical school of the University of California at Los Angeles, thinks he has found a way to show quickly whether the patient or the cancer is getting the upper hand...