Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingenuous newsmen rushed to tell the world Leona's hoked-up Cinderella story: she had scraped together $45 to buy a gown for the Maryland preliminaries, had come West on a one-way ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
Continuing the small war with the Los Angeles Police Department that he reopened some weeks ago when he sudsed his soul in Mike Wallace's TV brain laundry, onetime Desperado Mickey Cohen, now a gentleman florist, protested an $11 ticket for obstructing traffic ("Another roust on the part of the Police Intelligence Department"), appealed to a jury of his peers, lost...
...Figures. In Tampa, Reporter Dana Cessna, rushing to a Chamber of Commerce meeting, could find only a twelve-minute parking place, left a note explaining his business, and pointed out that all the one-hour spots were taken, returned to find a ticket pinned to the reply: "Don't park in a twelve-minute place unless you're attending a twelve-minute meeting...
Rides will leave for Wellesley tonight and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. from the Thayer Gate for the Theatre-on-the-Green's production of Shaw's Man and Superman. Those wishing the special combined trip and discount ticket must sign at Mrs. Clouser's office in Grays Hall before 4 p.m. on the days they wish to make the trips...
EASTERN AIR LINES will get first nonstop U.S. flag route from New York and Washington to Mexico City, worth $21 million yearly in ticket sales. CAB will take unusual step of revoking its examiner's suggestion that route go to Pan American World Airways...