Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit's big (6 ft. 4 in.), good-looking Outfielder Dick Wakefield is blessed with personal charm and a wealth of natural ballplayer's ability. But since the Tigers signed him up eight years ago, for a record $51,000 bonus, Wakefield has been successful only at driving his bosses to distraction...
Where Are They Now? Editor Greenough Smith, rich in journalistic honors, died in 1935. Deprived of his sure touch, the Strand declined rapidly. In World War II, the shortage of good fiction-and paper to print it on-hit the magazine even harder. When the Strand's traditional format and cover were discarded in favor of a pocket-sized, sophisticated approach, the magazine lost the last traits of its old character without developing a new one. Complained new Editor MacDonald Hastings, who took over in 1944: "Where are the Conan Doyles today, and where are the readers who want...
...Race begins entertainingly and remains vivid in spots. It gains from a sound production and, in particular, from Actress Field's winning performance. But even what is good about the play usually sets off memories of something better. If The Rat Race is a black mark against the callousness of Manhattan, it seems equally one against the opportunism of Broadway...
...merger would save the U.S. Government $9,000,000 a year in mail subsidies. "A saving of $9,000,000 . . . is a very important item of public interest. If the Board approves [this merger], it should make clear to Pan American that it will expect [it] to make good on Mr. Trippe's representation...
...land, a surge of buying sent sales to an alltime record the announcement that the short interest (i.e., the number of shares sold short in anticipation of a decline) had risen 61,311 shares in the last month to 2,267,481, the highest since July 1932, was good news to the bulls. They argued that a further advance would result when the bears scurried to buy back the shares they had sold short. And any decline, ran the argument, would be cushioned as the shorts bought to realize their profits...