Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vacationing in Sicily, and waiting for unseasonable rains and chilly winds to end so that he could venture out with his paintbrushes and easel, Britain's retired Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating...
...talent scouts. Behind a steel-plated door in the rear of his toney haberdashery, Racketeer Mickey Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green "became a diamond ring for Alice, chromium accessories for my car, a new tailor-made suit, a hand-painted tie . . ." But the highlight of Jim's criminal career was a slick trick for improving his judgment of race horses. He would cut into the direct Teletype wire between a bookie and the race track, take the race results on his own Teletype, and signal...
...Louis Wolfson it was a key round in his fight for control of Montgomery Ward & Co. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in a suit filed by Wolfson that Ward's staggered-director system, by which only three of the nine directors were elected each year, is unconstitutional. Thus the highest court in the state of Illinois upheld a lower court decision (TIME, Feb. 14) that all nine Ward directors must be elected each year, and wrecked Chairman Sewell Avery's built-in majority (i.e., six directors with unexpired terms) on the company's board of directors...
...York Central Railroad. The bill came to $1,300,000 (v. the $100,000 he had "hoped" it would cost). Young disclosed in a letter to stockholders for the Central's annual meeting in May. Although Young had roared loud and long, and even filed suit to stop the Central from using its funds to fight him, now he has changed his mind. He asked Central's shareholders to foot the entire cost of his fight. Said Young: "Your board has been persuaded . . . that it would be a discouraging precedent. . . for us to defray our own expenses...
...Upstaged. In Cincinnati, Cowboy Kenneth Hoober lost a $5,250 damage suit in which he alleged that Photographer Jackson Storey had circulated a picture which depicted Hoober's horse more favorably than it did Hoober...