Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overestimate. In Cheyenne, Wyo., offered a suspended sentence if she could guess how many days the court had in mind, Fortune-Teller Olga Rambova hesitated, then replied, "I think it's 30 days," was sent to jail for 25 days...
...Then a teller solemnly read the names on the ballots. The cardinals kept score on printed tally sheets. On the third ballot, the decision came. Cardinal Pacelli suddenly hid his deathly pale face in his hands. At the end of the roll, it was evident that only Pacelli had voted against Pacelli. Outside, before the wildly cheering crowd, a cardinal solemnly pronounced the ancient formula: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam . . . [I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope...
...minor read agents, a New Yorker, presented a note to the teller at the 43rd St. Merchants' Trust Bank saying, "This is a stick-up. Pass over all your cash and no one will get hurt." The teller was indeed stuck-up--insufferably so. She hardly glanced at the poor wretch, but replied, "Well, you must have that O.K.ed by an officer." Then she left her cage, walked to a guard and gave the rascal in charge. After searching him, finding neither weapons nor money, the guards threw him out of the bank. "We thought he was a bum," they...
...candles" are the most potent whammy in Texas U. tradition-and nothing to be lightly invoked. Back in 1941, after some sorority girls got the tip from a fortune teller, red candles were lighted on the eve of,the Texas A.&M. game, and Texas U. broke an 18-year jinx by beating A.&M. on the enemy's home field. In 1950, Texas broke out the red candles for the second time, and upset Southern Methodist, the nation's No. 1 team. And once more, last week, the red candles burned in campus store windows, dormitories, classrooms...
...American Bankers Association, which represents 98% of all U.S. banks. Ohio-born and educated, Reese worked his way through grade and high school selling papers, through Ohio State peddling milk and fraternity jewelry, went on to teach economics at Ohio State and Georgia Tech before starting as a teller with the Newark (Ohio) Park National Bank. He rose to president in 1926, has since boosted assets from $1,700,000 to $19 million. ¶ Walter B. Gerould, 53, vice president and comptroller for A. G. Spalding & Bros., became president, succeeding William T. Brown, who died recently. Gerould started selling Spalding...