Word: towing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garage Owner Jack Murray proved that his rowdy humor and his mechanical skill were an unbeatable combination. Along the way he touched off sticks of explosive gelignite that blew competitors out of much-needed rest. Outside Broome, Murray's 1948 Ford V-8 (which he uses for a tow car at home) ran out of gas; Murray promptly made a deal with another driver, whose car was stranded with burned-out bearings. After filling his Ford from his competitor's gas tank, Murray towed the stranded car to town, gassed up again and went...
Chalk & Flour. The day their prize outfielder was separated from the Army, the Giants had a savvy scout named Frank Forbes, 61, waiting at the gate to take him in tow. An oldtime Negro athlete (baseball, basketball and boxing), Forbes is the professional godfather to the Giants' Negro ballplayers. With his other charges safely married, Forbes's main preoccupation is Willie...
Landing in Manhattan after a seven-month European concert tour, Peru's multi-octaved Singer Yma Sumac, with her son Charles, 5, in tow, bumped smack into immigration officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy...
...Matthews, his managerial masterpiece, to New York to see him flattened by Rocky Marciano, and home to Seattle to watch him taking a licking from British Heavyweight Champion Don Cockell. A lesser man might have given up. Hurley was undaunted. Last month he arrived in London with Matthews in tow, and announced with infinite gall that his tabby could knock over Cockell...
...bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest...