Word: pocketbook
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When Joe Louis was just a young heavyweight champion, he thought nothing of flattening seven third-raters in one year. It kept him in practice, and pleased the promoters, the public and his pocketbook. Last week Joe Louis was feeling his full 32 years. To the press he announced: "I did the Bum-of-the-Month thing, you know . . . but it isn't worth while now, not at my age." Then, for lack of an able-bodied foe, he-called off the fight he had scheduled for June...
...veteran and shares his burning pity for the helpless. He fails to close his deals with certain other clients too. He makes several brilliantly funny attempts on the life of rambunctious Martha Raye, but she was born lucky and is plainly indestructible. He nibbles interminably toward the heart and pocketbook of rich, socialite Widow Isobel Elsom-and is all but caught in his hazardous career as he is about to marry...
...needed most, PBH has once more started solicitations for donors to lend the use of a vein for a little while when the Red Cross mobile unit pays a visit on April 10, 11, and 12. The nurses with the needles don't detract from anyone's pocketbook, and the operations leave no harmful after-effects. A few minutes of quiet blood-letting on the part of 300 students and teachers will satisfy the University's responsibility toward meeting a community quotient, which, if reached, will assure every temporary and permanent Cambridge inhabitant of a free quotient of blood...
...pocketbook was concerned. For the Treasury ruled last week that an employer could get back in tax-rebates some 60% of all portal-to-portal claims paid. And war contractors who had been on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis could probably collect from the Government 100% of claims paid. On the basis of the suits filed so far, the Government stood to lose as much as $4 billion...
...Chase (Nebenzal-United Artists) never runs quite fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...