Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bells & Boos. One mighty haymaker was the making of Rocky. He pulled it out of center field last March, knocked his opponent groggy. The confidence gained from that wallop gave him the same killer instinct that made Stanley Ketchel famous. He promptly made bells ring in the noggins of the late Bummy Davis, fading Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane, drew $100,000 gates...
Engaged. Nedenia Marjorie ("Deenie") Hutton, 22, who will inherit a fraction of her mother's General Foods (JellO, Post, Toasties, a shopping list of others) fortune, wartime USOverseas entertainer and stepdaughter of Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, onetime U.S. ambassador to Russia; and Stanley Rumbough Jr., 25, Colgate soap heir and wartime Marine fighter pilot; in Manhattan...
...Married. Stanley Walker, 47, able author-journalist, chronicler of the jazz age (Mrs. Astor's Horse) and of his own former job on the New York Herald Tribune (City Editor); and Ruth Howell, onetime Manhattan music critic, wartime OWI editor; in Dallas...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...
...York Herald Tribune sport editor, Stanley ("Coach") Woodward, threw the first brick. Wrote he: ". . . it is doubtful that any Negro will compete ... in view of the fact that he will have to travel to the scene in Jim Crow day coaches, and can expect nothing on arrival except segregation and abuse." Then Woodward steamed out to arrange a rival meet on the same day in some "civilized community," talked about renting New York's Randalls Island Stadium...