Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with...
...thing that sticks out most in my mind is not a Rubens or a Rembrandt or even a diamond-crusted cigaret box. It is a silver cup presented by Hermann Göring, Reich Master of the Hunt, to Hermann Göring, Reich Master of the Hunt. Yes, that is what it says...
Died. Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, 66, Yale '01, at whose annual Yale barn parties a silver bowl was awarded to the Eli who had "made his Y in life"; of kidney poisoning; in Montclair, N.J. A favorite dictum of retired Stockbroker Roberts: "Let me hire the office boy; I am willing to have someone else hire the others...
...newsmen inspect the penthouse where he and his Big Power colleagues called the tune for the San Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...story-now carefully emphasizing that A.P. was the author. Meantime commentators (with studiously cautious comments) and special newscasters (with no special news) reported from Washington and San Francisco. Sidewalk interviewers buttonholed unofficial celebrants. Extra-special musical numbers flew over the air like confetti (NBC hopefully played Look for the Silver Lining). From London, CBS's Ed Murrow said flatly: Truman and Churchill were ready to make an announcement but "it is now being held up ... [by] Marshal Stalin...