Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glassed-in cupola atop Santa Anita's grandstand sat a man with a different view. Stone-faced Charles H. Strub (rhymes with rube), 64, built Santa Anita, bossed it, drew down $334,000 in salary and bonuses in 1948. Last week, he put on his usual $50,000 weekend race, the Santa Margarita Handicap (won by Lurline B, a 30-to-1 shot). This week, the first of his three $100,000 races, the Maturity Stakes, would...
Twenty-five HLU members will occupy two tables at the banquet. They will also attend the State ADA's weekend convention. Senator Hubert Humphrey, new A.D.A. national chairman, is featured speaker at the dinner, one of 16 similar affairs scheduled simultaneously throughout the nation...
...About the Calliope? Morse, whose hobby is raising horses, was not through trying to hobble the Democrats. He charged in again when Majority Leader Scott Lucas called up a resolution to give Government employees a four-day weekend for the inauguration. The Truman inauguration, he said, was proof of his earlier remarks about extravagance. He lamented: "I wonder what has happened to the word 'economy...
...There are many items which the Democrats have added," Morse persisted. "I call the attention of the Senator ... to the calliope which will tag-end the circus." Morse had the last word, but Government employees got their four-day weekend...
Considine manages to turn out a daily newspaper column ("On the Line"), two weekend features, magazine articles, movie scripts and a weekly radio talk, and he finds time to cover the big stories (Bikini, the Olympics, Election Night, etc.). But a large sheaf of the copy that pours from Bob Considine's overworked typewriter carries somebody else's byline above his own. At 42, he is one of the solidest, most successful and least anonymous of ghostwriters. His annual income...