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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After last week's spill, many a U.S. horse player who bet on nothing but Glisson's mounts had to find a new system temporarily. Their blue-eyed boy, who was earning around $50,000 a year before he was old enough to shave regularly, was out of business for a few weeks with a broken collarbone...
...game's end his players carried Enright off the field on their shoulders. His job seemed safe, even if Carolina didn't win another game all year...
...manager of the past two seasons, Joe Kuhel. Later, he proudly announced the purchase of Irv Noren, a promising outfielder from the Pacific Coast League, for $70,000. Last week, Griffith swung another deal he knew would please Washington fans: he signed up Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, his 52-year-old former "boy-wonder" manager, whom he had fired twice before...
...Harris, who made news a year ago by being fired as manager of the New York Yankees, it was a chance to get back after serving as manager of the San Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League. Says Bucky: "San Diego is a nice town. The pay is fine. So are the folks. But it's still bush." Although the Senators were not likely to go anywhere (under his management or anybody else's), bossing the worst team in the majors was better than bossing the best in the minors...
South Pacific, Broadway's biggest current moneymaker, was taking in some $7,000 a night last week. But, its producers estimated, ticket scalpers were making $18,000 a night on the same show. Indignantly, Broadway's leading angel, Howard S. Cullman, totted things up: in a year, he figured, South Pacific will take in $3,000,000 while its parasites rake in $8,000,000. The public goes on paying for both...