Word: slams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After pocketing a passel of prizes for its series exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian...
Married. Rex Harrison (real name: Reginald Carey Harrison), 49, British-born actor of stage (My Fair Lady) and screen (Anna and the King of Slam); and Kay Kendall (real name: Kay Justine Kendall McCarthy), 31, British cinemactress (Genevieve); he for the third time (his second: Actress Lilli Palmer), she for the first; in Manhattan...
...formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous...
...part of a general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...
...contract, six diamonds, but in a manner that left South to play the hand. Italy's Piero Forquet, West, opened with the three of hearts, and his partner, Guglielmo Siniscalco, took the trick with the ace, returned a heart lead, the only play that could stop the small slam. West trumped, and the U.S. was down one. When Italy took over the bids went: East South West North Pass 1β 4Ω 4Δ Pass 5Δ Pass 6Δ Thus the Italians arranged to play from North, the more advantageous position. East led the ace of hearts...