Word: spills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plagued by an early spill, the Varsity mile relay team trailed Cornell and Princeton last Saturday night in a four college contest at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden. It was their first setback of the season...
Into a flashy Troost Avenue gin mill in Kansas City last week wandered a lonely blonde. Like a lot of others, she had come to spill her troubles to a bosomy Negro blues singer named Julia Lee. She ordered two shots of bourbon for Julia, and a Tom Collins for herself. Julia Lee heard out the story of the blonde's wayward husband, then said with professional assurance: "Everything's going to turn out all right, honey." Then it was time for her act. From her piano, Julia beat out a boogie-woogie rhythm with her strong left...
Subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Budenz says that he will not name names until he's face to face with John Rankin. The he'll spill the beans on which union leaders, politicians and public figures are directly or indirectly tools of the Kremlin. For the time being he is playing a cautious game: when a reporter from a top Boston paper asked about the degree of Communistic influence on the Harvard Faculty, he replied that he had "nothing at all" to comment...
...inventor of the turbojet engine walked off the Queen Elizabeth last week, on his way to receive the U.S. Legion of Merit. Slim, smart Air Commodore Frank Whittle of the R.A.F. was brimming (in a reserved, don't-spill-a-drop British manner) with enthusiasm...
...Hambletonian had its 21st renewal. Winner: a bay colt named Chestertown, bought the week before the race by Walter E. Smith, a rags-to-riches West Coast industrialist turned harness-racing promoter. Driver: grizzled, 72-year-old Tom Berry, who had broken two ribs and his wrist in a spill two days earlier...