Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second in public interest to the Cleveland Indians. So far Bender has failed to whistle up even a mild breeze of enthusiasm. In Republican state headquarters, where some 60 paid employees bustled about two years ago, a bare 20 were on duty last week. Only 30% of the state ticket's $750,000 budget has been raised-and some of the fattest Republican cats have flatly refused to contribute this year...
...Nevada at Large. In 1952, taking advantage of a Democratic feud (powerful old U.S. Senator Pat McCarran was knif ing the Democratic candidate for the other Senate seat), Republican Clifton Young slid in by 771 votes. This year McCarran is supporting the party's ticket, and Young is in trouble...
...robust Robin Roberts, 27, pitched the feeble Phillies to an nth-inning 5-4 victory over the New York Giants, winning his 20th game of the year, became the first National Leaguer to turn the trick for five consecutive seasons since the Giants' Carl Hubbell, the "Old Meal Ticket...
Along with such notable starters, ticket buyers will have a choice of a second group of possible hits: All Summer Long, by Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson, with John Kerr; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack...
...team that money could buy. Over the years, he talked legislators into ever greater appropriations for the University of Maryland, and paid them in a current coin: football victories. When he resigned last January, after 18 years as U. of M. president, to run for governor on the Democratic ticket, Curly Byrd's football team (in five years, 43 victories, six defeats) was the nation's best. The university had been transformed from a small agricultural school into a sprawling, Midwestern-style campus with 25,000 students, a host of professional schools and thriving branches (for the armed...