Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party and thrown into jail for possession of illegal whisky and gambling equipment. Hopalong-to-be suffered; when newspapers ran his picture by mistake, Radio Pictures tore up a $3,000-a-week contract, pushed him adrift...
...Blue, Yale liked him fine. The Yale Athletic Department also liked the corn-pone drawl in which Hickman had announced his coaching aim at New Haven: to win just enough games "to keep the alumni sullen but not mutinous." Though Hickman's five-year contract still had two years to run, Yale last week tore it up and handed him a new one. Its term: an unprecedented ten years. Three days later, powerhouse Princeton gave Hickman's Yale the worst beating (47-12) in the history of the Princeton-Yale series. Nobody tried to hoist Herman...
...comic sidekick from Pocatello (Tom Ewell), a Tommy gun that never needs reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time to get ardent comfort from Hero Power...
...people connected with Yale football are very anxious to celebrate the introduction of the ten-year plan at New Haven, for they were thwarted last Saturday and they would just as soon not wait until next fall. Furthermore, Herman Hickman, who on November 15 was presented with a contract seeing him through the 1960 season, has the wherewithal to win his first game in the Stadium tomorrow...
Mulvihill, in the union's first statement since vice-President Reynolds announced that student porters may be used instead of maids, said that he was "confident that the maid contract will be settled to the satisfaction of both University and union--and I am also confident that there will be maid service next year...