Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relief of war refugees. The "special relief levy" met with a chilly response from such men as Tu Yueh-sheng, Shanghai's richest and most powerful citizen, who sits on the boards of 44 business enterprises and eight benevolent associations. Tu, who got his start as the Al Capone of the city's underworld, didn't want to give anything at first. After Shanghai's Mayor K. C. Wu threatened to publish the names of wealthy nongivers, Tu pledged $2,000. Most other "givers" were even more niggardly. Last week, after 5½ months of wheedling...
...speech to a country audience, Munoz once stopped to take a swig from a Coke bottle. "That's our man!" somebody yelled. "He drinks ,from the bottle!" "Wait a minute," Munoz broke in. "If you vote for me just because I drink from the bottle, you'll start voting for everybody who drinks out of bottles...
...Czechs, now behind 2-0, came back to win the doubles. Playing his second singles, against Jaroslav Drobny, Adrian Quist had a chance to clinch the matches. But age told: he got off to a good start, only to lose, 6-8, 3-6, 18-16, 6-3, 7-5. That left Australia's Davis Cup chances in the hands of Billy Sidwell. He polished off Czech Cernik in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. That spelled victory for Australia...
...father's passion for whittling, and grew up to be one of the best sculptors alive, Městrović has two closely related reasons for staying away from Yugoslavia: 1) he knows what the inside of a jail looks like (the Fascists jugged him at the start of the war, released him only at the Pope's request); 2) he is no Titolitarian...
...that prices everything from pizzerias to call girls; Lait wrote it with his nightclub columnist and protégé, Lee Mortimer (the man Sinatra socked). Having sold 20,000 copies in its first fortnight, and sold to the movies for $50,000, it is off to a better start than Lait's The Big House (200,000 copies...