Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Aberdeen, S. Dak. golf pro to give full time to his daughters. U.S.G.A. and financial pressure had forced him to make the decision before Marlene, his most promising pupil, had another chance at the women's amateur title (she was put out in the semifinals last fall). Marlene had been named Woman Athlete of the Year for 1949 in an Associated Press poll, and the girls had dominated the winter circuit, but the next meal was getting to be more of a problem than the next tournament...
That spurred Rosenfeld to put his designer, Elizabeth Hilt, to work on fall and winter suits. He earmarked $1,000,000 (Henry's favorite figure) for purchase of Botany flannels, iridescent tweeds, etc., and signed up six factories which turned out WAC and WAVE uniforms during the war to make his suits. Next month he expects to show buyers 30 new models of fall suits to retail for $39.95. By the end of next year, he thinks his gross will rise to $40 million as he turns out 1,000,000 suits bearing his rosebud label...
...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
Soprano Traubel had written her 5,500-word, six-installment mystery in dressing rooms and train compartments while on tour last fall. Unlike her heroine, Soprano Traubel had to drug nobody to get her story before the public. The Associated Press heard about it, snapped it up for distribution to the 200-odd papers which regularly use its serial-story service...
...without the slightest notion who the witch is, he creates a diversion for her benefit. He describes himself as the murderer of two village characters and demands that he be hanged forthwith. Then the witch turns out to be beautiful. That the beautiful Jennet Jourdemayne and Soldier Thomas fall in love, and that their love laughs at faggots and hangmen, are matters that Poet Fry makes as right as the place his heart...