Word: annuals
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After five weeks on the throne, King Gustaf VI of Sweden asked his parliament for a raise of $38,000 to bring his annual allowance up to $231,000, a middle bracket in the modern monarchical wage scale...
This week the ranking committee of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association turned out its annual honor roll, and for the first time since 1930, when Johnny Doeg did it, a left-hander topped the list. He was taffy-haired Art Larsen, 25, ranked No. 6 a year ago but winner in 1950 of the national singles title...
Though football fans wondered about Coach Frank Leahy's future after Notre Dame's worst season in 17 years (4-4-1), his boss at Notre Dame was in no doubt. Last week, at the annual football dinner, President John J. Cavanaugh announced that Leahy was getting a "substantial" increase in salary (this year estimated at $15,000). Furthermore, in case anybody thought Notre Dame was going to 1) abandon big-time football, or 2) join in "the chicanery" of checkbook recruiting, he was mightily mistaken. "We are flatly and irreconcilably against paying football players directly or indirectly...
...popular singers of 1949 held their own in 1950. Last week, with returns in from their annual jazz-fan polls, both Down Beat and Metronome found that rubber-throated Billy Eckstine and sultry-voiced Sarah Vaughan again led all the rest...
...products) sat in wide-eyed fascination. On the platform, in addition to a raft of dark-suited officers and directors, was a group of Hawaiian islanders decked out in bright and summery island garb. All were employees of the company; they were there to explain Hawaiian Pineapple's annual report to the stockholders...