Word: elie
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Unlike almost every other big city in the U. S., Philadelphia had no real art museum until after World War I. In 1919 hardboiled, gimlet-eyed Quaker Lawyer Eli Kirk Price started pulling political strings, got a modest $200,000 appropriation "to build a museum of art at Fairmount," then strung the city fathers along year by year until he had a $12,000,000 building. "He knew if we did the ends first, we'd have to finish the middle sometime," says bulky, bustling Fiske Kimball, who in 1925 left his job as head of New York University...
...event by turning in one of the six best times in the preliminary heats, necessitating multiple coming on each swimmer in each race. Curwen was declared the winner over Sanburn of Yale by the finish judges, but the timers clocked him two-tenths of second slower than the Eli. Unfortunately, the timers' verdict is all-important...
Under the present set-up, the H. A. A. awards major letters only to swimmers who place in the Yale meet, while those who compete but do not place receive minor letters. Under the proposed plan, all those who swim in the Eli contest would win major awards...
...Alley's current trend has been called "the double-entendre era" by Eli Oberstein, president of U. S. Record Corp. Mr. Oberstein's biggest hit (150,000 copies) is She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, ostensibly written by John Doe and Joe Doaques (actually Hugh Prince and Don Raye). A sister piece, She Really Meant to Keep It Till She Married, has sold 75,000 records for Mr. Oberstein. Not yet recorded is I'm a Virgin but I'm On the Verge, by ASCAP Member Paul Denniker...
...other major winter sports, basketball and hockey, get two cracks at Old Eli, swimming, only one. A baseball player may garner in his letter while picking off a few dandelions in the outfield as the last strike in the last inning of the last game with Yale is hurled. But in the middle of a clinched 220, no substitute arches into the pool to finish the race and receive his reward...