Word: rickards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
...number of patients, he is said to have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness of my old friend Tex. Tell me, Mrs. Rickard, how is he?" "He's dying, Governor," the tearful spouse replied, and Romanoff...
Several of the pioneer car-analysis stations were set up by Mobil and Shell when they discovered that their customers were disenchanted with existing garage methods. And car manufacturers only wish their own dealers could afford the same elaborate diagnostic equipment the analyst can offer. Says E. B. Rickard, manager of Ford's service and parts division: "It's just like modern medicine. The modern car is an enormously complicated piece of machinery. In a person, if you have to have your tonsils taken out, you want to be absolutely sure they have to come out. That...