Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic-but curiously unconvincing-gesture toward suicide. The janitor at the jail in Poplarville, questioned by agents, swallowed a nauseating dose of toilet-bowl cleaner. Farmer C.C. ("Crip") Reyer, 42, whose car looked like one seen at the jail, entered a hospital with a "nervous breakdown." Farmer Arthur Smith Jr., 32, went to a hospital with a "cerebral hemorrhage," which his doctor said was brought on by the strain of FBI questions. Smith later turned out to have suffered no hemorrhage...
...Smith's four-year-old Hillsdale was bunched with three other horses with only a dozen yards to go in the California Stakes at Hollywood Park, Calif., but responded to the whipping of Jockey Tommy Barrow, won by a nose in a driving finish. The $66,800 winner's share increased Hillsdale's lifetime earnings to $415,095, gave him first place in 1959 winnings with $270,250. ¶ In a dual track meet between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State at Norman, Okla., for the first time in college track history three vaulters cleared...
Hefty Charge. For years brokerage houses avoided the funds like the plague, fearful that they would hurt regular brokerage business. But most of them have come around. Main holdout: Manhattan's huge Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, which has never even deigned to mention the funds' existence in its financial letter...
...LITTLE KAROO (188 pp.)-Pauline Smith-Vanguard...
...Beecher and Smith checked swimming times, running speeds, shot-putting, and weight-throwing in their study. Weight-throwers registered the greatest improvement, with a three to four per cent increase in performance after dosage...