Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Modulator investors' money, gathered the facts and handed them over to a federal grand jury. From what the FBI had to say, it was clear that Harold's "cosmic con" signaled the decline of such classic earth-bound dodges as the Gypsy Swindle, Pigeon-Drop, Sick Old Man and Handkerchief Switch. But Spaceman Berney, who has a long record of convictions for embezzlement and fraud, said there had been a terrible misunderstanding. He has never been near Venus, he said. And he doesn't even know any Mr. Ucellus...
...Indeed? Up to the stage trotted Jesse Lasky Jr., an officer of the Screen Writers' Guild. The academy had asked Lasky to pick up Rich's Oscar after someone claiming he was Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought...
...duplex, "I was brought down to be introduced to Miss Gertrude Stein or Mr. Michael Arlen or Miss Tallulah Bankhead or the Duke of Alba." Barrymore relations showed up. too. "Aunt Ethel'' came to dinner, sipped lavishly, slipped and fell upon the floor. "Is Aunt Ethel very sick?" Diana asked. "It's just a Barrymore headache," answered Mummy...
...like good old Dave. To honor Beck's election as the Teamsters' president, more than 600 Seattle business leaders gathered in the Olympic Hotel in December 1952. Co-chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
When William N. Deramus III, 41, took the throttle of the 3,240-mile Missouri-Kansas-Texas line three months ago (TIME, Jan. 21), railroaders agreed that the new president would put the coughing Katy back on the tracks if anybody could. With a reputation as a savior of sick railroads, Deramus came to Katy fresh from rescuing the Chicago Great Western Railway Co. from heavy debt, hoped to do the same for Katy, whose earnings skidded 37% in 1956, and whose preferred stockholders were due $106 million in dividend arrears. In short order, Deramus trimmed the Katy...