Word: tippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormick, 6 ft., 5 in., will be pivot man. McCormick, from Cleveland, was a hurler on the track team last spring and makes good use of his height and jump on the tip-off and under the basket. Cruising at the same altitude is forward Ed Smith, 6 ft., 5 in., who will be firing with either hand from the left. Smith's home field is in Columbus, Ohio...
...Maxwell sounded an alarm. It seemed that Tyrone Power, in Rome, had hung up on Lana Turner when she telephoned him from Manhattan. "Lana walks around the Reservoir at Central Park at night," Elsa went on nervously, "sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. This is a real tip to MGM, which has a valuable star in Miss Turner and should watch after...
...caddy Demaret tips his caddies as much as $150 for a tournament (the usual pro's tip: $5 a round). In match play, Demaret usually does badly. After Ben Hogan drubbed him 10 and 9 last year in the P.G.A. Championship semifinals, newsmen asked what was the turning point of the match. Replied Jimmy dryly: "When Hogan showed up." But Jimmy has won the prized Masters' Tournament twice...
This week's hot tip from Walter Winchell: "The most inflammable stuff on Toscanini (and Lily P. and André K.) is resting quietly on a publisher's desk. It is a book tagged: The Other Side of the Record. Too Gee-Whiz for the printed page." Actually, the book was resting quietly at most bookstores; it had been published in October and widely reviewed (TIME...
Indians and British. The scales tip, however; and no Indian will care for the novel's final implication that, by & large, three generations of British administrators were cool, active and kindly men faced with a buzzing of unstable-if lovable-children...