Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly a week, meeting quietly in New York City, Murray and Bethlehem's tough and practical President Eugene Grace hammered out peace terms. The company, which for 26 years had provided employees with free pensions (now $50 a month at 65), would increase them to $100 a month and bear all the cost (an estimated 9? an hour, in contrast to the fact-finders' proposed 6?. Murray agreed in turn to have Bethlehem's 80,000 workers pay half the cost of a new 5?-an-hour insurance and hospitalization program...
...most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...
...farmer's germs were a special strain. They had licked their weight in penicillin, and come back to knock out streptomycin, chloramphenicol and aureomycin. Unchecked, they were a sure bet to kill the farmer. Dr. Garfield G. Duncan pitted the tough germs in a test tube against neomycin. The drug murdered them...
Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...
...freshmen get a welcome layoff this week before ending up the season against tough Brown and Yale squads...