Word: racket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return, at 34, was another piece of evidence that big-time boxing was on the ropes. In Manhattan, Sport Columnist Jimmy Cannon, an old fight fan, got so wrought up about it that he predicted: "The fight racket is perishing . . . and in our time will be an obsolete sport...
Died. James Herbert Wilkerson 78 famed racket-busting federal judge, who sentenced Al Capone to prison in 1931; in Chicago. Judge Wilkerson also tried Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Racing Form Publisher Moe Annenberg...
...nose in a stein of suds that plagued him by suddenly becoming a chocolate malted. He had managed to wipe off his nose, but his eyes were still wistful. Was that the way to treat an old friend? The new catalogue--it looked like the handbook for a numbers racket, and what did one do with a full course, pledged as one was to the same spectacles and classroom from September until the month of May? It reminded him of a song about a yellow ribbon and then he thought, a full course costs more than a Model...
...starting point "for improving social practices" the Gimo proclaimed a new movement-"industriousness and austerity for national reconstruction." "This movement," said the Gimo, echoing his racket-busting son, Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20), "is a revolutionary social movement . . . Its mission is to check the tendency to extremes of wealth and poverty. Eventually life at the front will move downward to the soldiers' level and life in the rear to the common people's level...
Young Pancho, one of seven kids of a Hollywood studio painter, has been playing tennis since 1941, when his mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach,' who was I to say no?"). Though Perry Jones, the Southern California tennis czar, looked askance, he quit high school in 1943 and then did a hitch in the Navy. He finally played his way back into Jones's good graces-and the tournament bids, expense money...