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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haunted House. The most outspoken of the malcontents was Ed Stanky, who made no secret of what he thought about Southworth's managing. Stanky's roommate, Alvin Dark, said "Me, too." By August, Southworth was like a man in a haunted house, shying at every whisper, He was sent home on the verge of a breakdown. The crowning insult came when his players voted him only half a share of their series money (for finishing fourth...
Another big league club, the sad-sack St. Louis Browns, made headlines last week by practically putting itself out of business. To make ends meet, they sold their two best players: hard-hitting Third Baseman Bob Dillinger and an outfielder to the Philadelphia A's (for $100,000 and four players) and cracker jack Second Baseman Jerry Priddy to the Detroit Tigers (for $125,000 and a pitcher). To help inspire confidence among the players they have left, the Browns had hired a consulting psychologist...
...could be done. Then he had to spend five years convincing other Texans. After Kurth raised $2,689,684, including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another $2,500,000 from RFC, he built his own pulp mill...
Minute Maid's initial success came when it proved that frozen orange juice could have a fresh-squeezed taste. It got its second boost when it sold Crooner Bing Crosby 20,000 shares of stock at 10? a share and made him a director (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948). As part of the deal, Crosby, whose stock is now worth $14.75 a share (paper profit: $293,000) began plugging Minute Maid on a song & chatter radio program five days a week...
...story had made the rounds in Rome, where newspapers first printed it in August. Hedda Hopper gingerly slipped it into her gossip column last month as a rumor, and Hollywood had buzzed with it ever since. But last week, when Columnist Louella Parsons spread it as fact all over the front pages of the Hearst papers, a nation of moviegoers gawked. Screamed Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner across eight columns: INGRID BERGMAN BABY DUE IN 3 MONTHS IN ROME...