Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first game Adams edged out Eliot 5 to 2. Doug Anderson and Bill Carr were high scorers for Adams, while Seth Crocker and Dick MacAdoo accounted for the losing team's two goals...
Last week Dick Maney was living a pressagent's dream: he was handling six shows at once* four more than any other press agent, and all that the Theatrical Managers, Agents & Treasurers Union allows. His factory was going full blast under strict union rules: he had hired an assistant as soon as he handled two shows; a second assistant as soon as he handled four; a third when he handled six. His helpers were getting a total of $275 a week; he, a minimum of $625 and very likely about...
...Dick Maney's personality stands forth in the rackety, sulfurous, epithet-crawling style, "as distinctive as the Dietrich limbs," of his press stories. But it is his walking & talking personality that has put Maney on top. He scorns the usual props: high-pressuring, dancing attendance on people, buttering his employers. Instead, he hobnobs as an amusing guy with hundreds of people of all kinds, while through the years he has won and held the confidence of editors...
...gent when working for gentlemanly Arthur Hopkins. He may write reams of copy about a play for the press, but to its producer he never offers a word of unsolicited advice. And the producer-the man who pays him-comes first, last & always with him. Composer Dick Rodgers once asked him: "Is it a secret that I am writing the music for this show?" Retorted Maney: "It's Billy Rose who is handing out the pay." He says himself that a press agent should have the face of a cherub and the heart of a section foreman...
...Winship '42,Dick Whittemore '40, Lloyd Butterfield '40, Del Ames '43, BILL Thurston '42, Herbert Weiner '43, Roger Wilson...