Word: walks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes. I have never before admitted to her that I thought that was an underestimate. Now in 1956, a man came in with what was obviously a rather preposterous proposal. Finally she said to me, 'If you do that, I'll take my 74 electoral votes and walk...
...very good business woman and I don't like to be hooked.") When Wallis paid her only $15,000 to play in Running, she almost backed out of the picture, refused to show up on the set until the day before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance on a newcomer; furthermore, he says, Shirley was amply repaid, got bonuses and was treated royally. "I went up to her on the set during the week of her birthday," Wallis recalls, "and asked: 'If I was going...
...famed Winchell legwork has slackened to an amble. His Manhattan jungle prowls are intermittent now; he prefers to let his 40-odd faithful squad of Broadway volunteers pump up the bulk of the gossip. When he does walk abroad, he likes to visit the scenes of old triumphs: "This is where I got Lepke." He is often alone-an isolation the big game he once stalked is pleased not to invade. He was seen alone recently at Rashomon, at the Louis Prima-Keely Smith opening at the Copacabana, and the other night he sat peaceably at Sardi...
...sheet of carbon paper under his lecture notes and hope he remembered to use a ballpoint pen. Sabbath restrictions begin on Friday night, just before sundown, and on occasional Fridays only a lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow up on one of the cases he had been observing, he would leave his car in the garage and walk five miles to the hospital and back...
...final Crimson score was registered in the seventh on a walk, a sacrifice, and a single by George Harrington. But by this time many of the spectators had lost interest in the contest and were busy fighting for places at the water fountain. So far as this reporter could see, everybody went home happy except for an elderly man named Ethan Allen and several little boys in blue...