Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Palm Beach. Fla., Ted Williams, 36, one of the greatest hitters in the history of the big leagues, took time out after a sailfishing tournament to announce that he had made up his mind to quit baseball. From now on, said Williams, he will spend his summers fishing...
...captain neither agreed nor resisted when Scotland Yard men took Eisler off the Batory at Southampton. For this, when he docked at Gdynia, Cwiklinski sat through a palm-sweating grilling with his bosses and the dreaded U.B. (for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip to New York, the Batory's crew and passengers were in turn grilled by U.S. Government agents, and the eventual loss of pier privileges forced the Poles to give up the transatlantic run. No Communist or proCommunist, Cwiklinski tried to coexist with the Polish satellite regime for the sake...
With his glamorous wife Jacqueline at his side, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 36, borne on a stretcher, was wheeled from a Manhattan hospital, then flown to Palm Beach...
...Angeles International Airport, a luxurious ranch-type hotel with a palm-fringe'd patio and swimming pool opened for business, was already booked a month in advance. Built by Real Estate Man Hyatt von Dehn, 45, his Hyatt House has a $75-a-day executive suite for business conferences, 69 other rooms at $8 to $14 a day. At New York City's La Guardia Airport, former Hotel Owner (Manhattan's Paramount and Weylin) Louis Ritter, 48, had the first 40-room section of his $2,500,000 La Guardia Hotel (future size: 265 rooms) open...
Bridgeplayer Snite, 44, did not show up for the tournament's second day. In the West Palm Beach hotel room where he had been taking a nap in the iron lung, he was found dead. The respirator was working, but after so many years of pumping against it, Fred Snite's heart had failed in his sleep. Thus ended perhaps the most famed fight an American has ever made to stay alive and to enjoy life against terrible odds...