Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greats," says Southworth. Certainly, Johnny Sain's pitching arm was the biggest reason the Braves had for hoping to win their second National League pennant in a row. Last week in Bradenton, Fla., with the opener three weeks away, the arm was run through its first nine-inning test of the season...
Though the play filled every seat at $2.40, the Folger's small capacity left it $1,500 short of expenses. But it was a critical hit in the Washington press and a hit for the new regime (nine months) of Library Director Dr. Louis B. Wright, 50, a go-getter with a passion for enlarging the Folger's usefulness. Said he: "I haven't the foggiest idea of sitting up with a corpse or running a mausoleum...
Kinsey Distilling Corp., Continental Distilling Corp. and W. A. Haller Corp., all subsidiaries of huge Publicker Industries, Inc., pulled the cork by cutting whisky prices an average of 10% in ten states. They planned similar reductions in nine additional states by July...
Douglas had been known in Hollywood as a competent actor (The Walls of Jericho, A Letter to Three Wives'), but Champion promptly doubled his price per picture. Warner Brothers took one look and signed him up for a seven-year, nine-picture deal at just under $1,000,000. His first two pictures for Warner will be Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. He will also continue to do one film a year for Screen Plays, Inc., the welterweight studio which produced Champion...
...post-graduate work at the Sorbonne in Paris and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1911. He is the author of nine books and many articles...