Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganization plan,* but Pennsy can buy up all of the new common-stock issue for $7,626,872 ($12.75 a share). The Pennsylvania System, which already has 10,841 miles of road, will thus become 20% bigger, bestriding not only the East but the Mississippi, to Kansas City and Omaha...
...onetime "King of the Burlesque Wheel"; in Bronxville, N.Y. He ran away from home as a boy to join the circus, spent 20 years with tent shows. At the turn of the century he organized the Columbia Amusement Co. and gained control of all the burlesque theaters between Omaha and Boston. He retired in 1916, but seven years ago he came out of retirement briefly to help glorify Gypsy Rose...
...Chance by five; at New York's Belmont Park. Winner of this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, Whirlaway is the fifth horse in the history of U.S. turf to win America's three major races for three-year-olds. Others: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking, 48-year-old Bill Tilden (4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2), up-&-coming Dick Skeen...
Married. Ethel Woodward, socialite daughter of Banker-Sportsman William Woodward, owner of three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown); and Philippe de Croisset, veteran of Dunkirk, son of the late Parisian Playwright François de Croisset; in Manhattan...
Cruelty. In Omaha, a young woman sued for divorce because her husband, a stockyard worker, refused to take baths. "Sometimes," she testified, "it's two or three weeks between baths." "That's cruelty," ruled the judge, granting the decree...