Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruppel moved to Crowell-Collier's as assistant to Board Chairman Tom Beck, then joined the Marines. After the war, Hearst hired him, sent him back to Chicago as $40,000-a-year executive editor of the Her aid-American. But Ruppel's slam-bang civic cleanup campaign (DIRTY SHIRT TOWN) backfired, and Hearst bought up his contract...
Moving into Collier's with new Editor Ruppel was a new publisher and old friend: Edward Anthony, 53, who succeeded retiring Publisher William L. Chenery, 64. Anthony will also stay on as publisher of Crowell-Collier's Woman's Home Companion (circ. 3,755,000), while Tom Beck plans to take a back seat and let the new team do the driving. Where was the team heading? Said Editor Ruppel: "What the editor of a weekly magazine is going to do he has to do once a week. You can read that in the magazine...
Though beneficial to Gardella and his fellow expatriates (ex-Cardinals Lanier and Martin), a change in the contract terms would turn salary negotiations into a dogfight between players and owners which could hurt the sport immeasurably. If players went to the highest bidders, the rich owners like Tom Yawkey would soon corral all the talent. In post-war major league baseball, there is comparatively little injustice in salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty...
...Coach Tom Bolles announced yesterday that 27 Varsity crewmen will remain in Cambridge over the spring recess for daily practice...
Last year they saw Harvard sweep the river in the midst of whistles, hoots, Yachts, straw hats, long-legged and suntanned girls, seersuckered guys, and general bedlam. It was a joyous occasion but not unexpected. Tom Bolles has never lost a varsity race to Yale...