Word: mid-may
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Early last month Cox confessed. He said he had made 15 to 20 bets, $25 to $100 apiece. All were before mid-May - when, so he said, he first learned of the rule prohibiting such wagers. When Landis demanded a fuller accounting of such goings-on Bill Cox 1) refused, 2) sold his Phillies' stock to a Du Pont vice president...
Radio Vichy in mid-May launched a campaign to woo French-Americans in New England back "to ancient tradition." For Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born brains of NBC's French section, this was a lulu. Said Auberjonois one night in his short-wave news broadcast to France...
...have been as exciting as any it could possibly put on the screen. Completed in February 1940, it lay idle in studio vaults, then opened in Brussels three weeks before the Nazis appeared. They quickly burned all prints but one because of its sympathetic treatment of the Habsburgs. In mid-May it began a Paris run, lasted until the Nazi occupation 26 days later when again the prints were burned. The one unburned Brussels print was smuggled to England, flown to Canada and fashionably released last fortnight at Manhattan's arty Little Carnegie Playhouse, with proceeds from...
Playing on a borrowed Guarnerius at small concerts, Violinist Haitto has raised some $12,000 for the Finnish Relief Fund, has engagements through mid-May. He has learned some English, likes U. S. oranges, Mickey Rooney, skating in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center rink...
Although not always dependable, Lane pitched brilliantly against Columbia in mid-May, holding the Lions to four hits. Previous to the four-game series out of town nearly two weeks ago, Curtiss had not started a single game. Because of his victory over the Columbians on that trip, the tall right-hander is now ranked second on the Crimson mound staff...