Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
...Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week's U.S. Open, at his mercy. And all because of a borrowed putter...
Kaye, born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, is mobbed by adoring throngs. So many fans phone him at his Savoy suite that a special office had to be set up to handle some 52 calls an hour. His London appearance last year brought 70,000 fan letters in seven weeks; this year the total ran over 100,000. For those who cannot see the real Kaye, there is a wax model in Madame Tussaud's gallery of the great...
With such intimate insights into the home life of the Roosevelts, McCall's Editor Wiese hoped that his magazine's circulation (about 3,800,000) would catch the Journal's 4,522,000. To help it do so, McCall's spent $120,000 promoting the seven-article series with radio, newspaper and television advertising. Said Editor Wiese: I have no hesitancy in saying we expect this issue to be a sellout...
...that . . . later, Mr. Banks came out from town on the three-fifty-seven, composing an informal and, he hoped, dryly humorous little speech. It was to be about Kay as a little girl, Kay growing up and finally, in a big surprise climax, Kay announcing her engagement." But at Kay's engagement party, Mr. Banks never got to make his speech: he spent most of the party in the pantry, slopping together old-fashioneds at break-glass speed...