Word: cincinnatis
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...Hollywood" was promoted to Little Rock in the Eastern League for the next season, but a broken leg kept him out of action. That spring, however, he was up for a look-see, with the Cincinnati Reds in spring training. It was the year after the Reds had won the world's championship, and there was little room. However, he became good friends with Ival Goodman, Mike McCormick, and Bucky Waiters...
...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
...Britain's "old contemptibles," from the France of Ypres and the Somme, heard that the armies and the fleets were crossing the Channel again, and said: "It must be something to see!" A G.I. from Cincinnati, left behind by history in Piccadilly Circus, heard the news and said: "When do the bars open? I want a drink...
...crucial problem was finding a feasible process for producing DDT in the large quantities needed. It was solved last year by a Swiss-born chemist, Dr. Oskar Frey, of the Cincinnati Chemical Works. Cincinnati Chemical still produces 60% of the DDT supply...
...Last week Publisher Field bought a money maker: Cincinnati's Radio Station WSAI (5,000 watts, Blue Network), for upwards of $525,000 -subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission, which had ordered WSAI divorced from Crosley Corp. and its superpowered (50,000 watts) Station...