Word: freak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...
...Chapman Katz, named for the famed U.S. feminist. At the moment when civilization was whiffed out, they had been working in the stacks of the New York Public Library on Author Katz's new book, Down with Work-The Nuclear Physics of Economic Democracy, and perhaps owed their freak escape from the blast to the deadening effect of so many books...
...these encounters that seem on the pages of the record book to be going out of their way to spoil something was the one that officially opened the new Bowl. 1914 was the year; the score: Harvard 36, Yale 0. Just to prove that it wasn't a freak, the Crimson made it 41 to 0 the following year...
Elman started auctioning freak items on Hobby Lobby as a war-bond stunt. Soon, as Victory Auction, it was a show of its own, sold over $250,000,000 worth of bonds. The Treasury got his permission to imitate the idea. Now Elman is putting Auction to postwar profit. He got an auctioneer's license (he gets 20% commission on sales), a sponsor, and fifteen assistants to help him round up and check on items...
...first run for the Raiders was the result of a freak triple by "Red" Clawson, leadoff man, and a groundout by Ben Schadler in the first. The triple, which was just another easy outfield fly, was converted into a three-bagger by Mel Allen and Bob Carlton, who performed an Alphonse-Gaston act on the ball, letting it drop between them...