Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman, swinging a bottle of champagne against a plane's hull to inaugurate American Overseas Airlines' Washington-to-London commercial flights, scored a splashing smash on the third swing (her mother hammered a hull nine times last spring and finally gave...
...Page One of the Hearst press, one story had Churchill trying to keep the U.S. out of war, and a John T. Flynn piece saying that Churchill and Roosevelt had conspired to get the U.S. in. Manhattan dailies could not agree whether the Jap codes gave us a nine-day tipoff on Pearl Harbor (Daily News), 15 days (Mirror), or six months (Times...
...tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick" all day, astounds his companions...
...years the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears shared pro football's western spoils. This year the Cleveland Rams took the play away, won eight of their first nine games, and last week clinched the championship of the National Football League's Western Division...
...when Harvard makes five fumbles and gets only four out of nine conversion points in the game before the Yale game, it doesn't look too sharp--especially when the opponent could get taken over the barrel by most Great Boston high schools...