Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the whole town took up the cry of angry protest. Six Providence lawyers volunteered legal help. Most of the town's veterans' organizations and the Good Government Club rallied around. There were mass meetings, hangings in effigy, furious speechmaking. A minor intramural row had turned into a major political fight. The biggest heroes in the city were handsome, hefty Patrolmen Frank Klich, Lucien Tessier, John Byrnes and John Gorman-now nicknamed the "Fearless Four...
...along Radio Row, distinguished necks were bared to the ax. The networks' fall schedules were almost filled in. Yet nobody had met the ante for such top-dollar talent as Nelson Eddy, Hildegarde, Rudy Vallee, and the wisemen on Information Please. Instead, low-priced shows had been snapped up. The reason: radio advertisers had pared their budgets to the bone (TIME...
...other reasons, some heads already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...
Died. Tony ("Poosh'em Up") Lazzeri, 41, onetime hard-hitting, pantherlike second baseman and infield sparkplug of the New York Yankees (1925-37), who starred with Titans Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as a member of the famed "Murderers' Row"; after a fall apparently due to a heart attack; in Millbrae, Calif...
...banker, was RFC loan administrator in St. Louis, where he applied himself to becoming a better banker and a more learned man. He got his reward in 1940 when Jesse Jones called him to Washington to become executive vice president of the Defense Plant Corp. He left after a row with Jones, went back to St. Louis and the vice presidency of the First National Bank. Then one day his friend Harry Truman telephoned him that Franklin Roosevelt had just died. "John," said a shaky Harry Truman, "you'll have to come up here right...