Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, where he first played major-league baseball as a pitcher for the Red Sox in 1914, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth last week announced: "I'm definitely through as a regular player at the end of this season." His plans: a trip to Japan next Autumn, after that, "the best offer-if any." The New York Yankees bought Babe Ruth from Boston for $125,000 after the 1919 season. In the course of his career he had made 704 homeruns up to last week. His record for one season...
...bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous...
Madge Evans now has a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An expert badminton player, she owns the largest collection of pajamas in Hollywood, prefers to sleep in a nightgown. Unmarried, she lives in a ten-room Spanish house with her mother and brother, likes practical jokes, plays golf constantly and poorly, is often seen with Tom Gallery, matchmaker for Hollywood's Legion Stadium. Healthy, talkative, blue-eyed, she studies in bed, considers The Little Duchess (1917) her best picture...
...caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play it, he needed a tall stack of blue chips. Poker-player Fleischmann, weary of the baking business, gladly furnished them...
...Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player...