Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweden's luscious (36-23-36) Hillevi Rombin, 21, more renowned as Miss Universe, caused a small sensation in Hollywood by quietly undulating into an airline ticket office and booking a oneway passage to Stockholm. Signed by Universal-International studios at $250 a week, Hillevi had just been handed a bit role in The Benny Goodman Story, as an autograph-hunting U.S. bobbysoxer. A trifle puzzled by the fuss raised over her sudden departure, she later explained that the trip was inspired not by less love of Hollywood but more love of Sweden-and she will return...
...terror of New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, aeronaughty TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey, who was shorn of his private pilot's ticket for six months last year after he peevishly buzzed Teterboro's control tower, taxied his DC-3 at the scene of the crime, this time clipped a ground approach light with his wing. Unaware that he had dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned...
...batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike an infielder and" chop his legs off." So it was on Sept. 29, 1954. Hano began the day by snapping at his wife. He spent the early morning standing in line waiting to buy a ticket to the bleachers. By 10 a.m. he was comfortably situated on a hard bench, killing time by reading his program, kibitzing on a nearby casino game, and swapping insults with out-of-town visitors. When the Giants and the Cleveland Indians took the field to open the World Series, Hano...
Wintle's Peace. At war's end, Wintle subsided into Kent to write novels and memoirs. He reappeared briefly in the public eye, accused of kicking a ticket collector at Victoria Station-unable to find a seat in the train, he had planted himself in the engine driver's cab, refused to move until they found...
Auto Accessory. In Louisville, after he had instructed Driver Mrs. Dell B. Harrington to make an illegal turn while he was a passenger in her cab in order to get to work faster. Judge M. D. Elston accepted the ticket she received, paid the $5 fine himself...