Word: weekday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baseball's second largest weekday crowd in history (64,183) jammed the Yankee Stadium to see a hitting match between Joe Di Maggio and Ted Williams. Joe, who had been doing so poorly that the crowd had booed him the day before, hit a home run with the bases loaded. Williams couldn't hit a thing, but the Sox won victory No. 15 anyway...
...every five regular readers felt the lack enough to go to the printing plants, brave shouting picket lines and buy copies. Some newspapers printed box scores showing the city's growing thirst for news; the Daily News (normal weekday circ. 2,000,000) sold 135,000 copies on the seventh day of the strike, 500,000 a week later...
...four years wartime restrictions have kept gasoline stations closed tight, after 7 p.m. every weekday and all day Sundays - a welcome relief to filling-station men who used to work 18-hour days and seven-day weeks. Their anguish, when the Government lifted the wartime curb last week, was enormous. Promptly, Manitoba's Automotive Trades Association, representing 90% of the gas stations in the province, bowed to the new fondness for restrictions, voted to stick to war time hours...
Soap opera's biggest single earner (as high as $250,000 a year) is a 43-year-old ex-Ohio schoolmarm named Irna Phillips. Weekday mornings the 45 characters of her three current shows (The Guiding Light, Today's Children, The Woman in White) troop past an NBC microphone in 45 minutes of virtually nonstop emotionalism. Last week, on the anniversary of her 15th year in radio, Writer Phillips was wrestling with a newly publicized approach to her craft. She called it "social significance...
Last September the austere London Times, most reverend of Britain's newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which had caused the serial number on its front page to exceed the proper figure by 23. The mistake, said the Times, would be rectified by numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true...