Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis learned in 1947 that it is dangerous to play fast & loose with the courts. The lesson cost him and his United Mine Workers $710,000. Last week, therefore, ordered by a federal judge, he sullenly appeared before a presidential fact-finding board and explained his version of the coal dispute...
...father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. He earned pocket money as a newsboy, later as a cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. In high school he spent summers as a call-boy waking up railroaders for the S.P., did odd jobs as a freight hustler and farm hand, learned to play the clarinet in the school band. He still carries a card in the musicians' union...
Boom & Byline. In a political year, almost every man is a politician of sorts. But most men merely play at it. Roy Roberts devotes a great part of his skill, energy and time to it. He almost lost his amateur standing in 1936, when he guided Alf Landon into the worst debacle the Republican Party ever suffered. But in 1948 he made most of the 14-carat professionals look tarnished. He was closest to the biggest political story of the year-the Eisenhower boom...
Spring brought work as well as play and immemorial festival. It also brought, as always after the cold days and long dark nights, a mood of revived hope. Europe needed it. For the mood of Western Europe was a mixture of anxieties as much as hopes, of discouragements as much as resolution. A great deal of the European mood was apparent in what people did and chatted about; something more became clear in the answers they gave in simultaneous surveys* of what they thought and expected...
...FUTURE was, after all, rather inscrutable, Western Europeans could make the best of the tangible present. Football fever gripped Paris. Fifty thousand jammed into the Colombes Stadium, outside the city, to watch Lille and the Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...