Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...writer, like O. Henry. Meanwhile, he sold shirts and newspaper subscriptions, worked as a rivet catcher in the shipyards and a poster tinter in a theater lobby. Writing furiously, he sold a story called Mad Desire to Physical Culture. (The subtitle: "Determined to die in a futile effort to make amends, love points him a better way and rekindles his desire to live...
...sends more wires to Fox outposts. (Cracks his longtime pressagent Harry Brand: "If one of our pictures grosses as much as Western Union does on it, we can all retire.") By 3:30 or 4 p.m., he darts to his projection room for a look at rushes, wardrobe and make-up tests. By 4:30 he calls up his children-Richard Darryl, 15, Susan Marie, 16, and Mrs. Darrilyn Zanuck Jacks-for a fatherly chat...
Trainer Jones's instructions to Jockey Steve Brooks were simple: "Don't let anything get too far ahead of you, and make your move at the three-eighths pole. Get that horse up on his toes...
...Gloves. When Manager Harris demoted 1949 Starting Pitcher Harris to relief roles this spring, he did it in an oblique manner, using psychology to cushion the blow. Announced Bucky: "I'm going to make another Joe Page out of Mickey," and Mickey set out gladly to emulate the Yankees' famed relief pitcher...
...league clubs (including the Tigers, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees), bulb-nosed, sun-scarred Bucky Harris, 53, has mellowed. As the Senators' fiery, hardhitting second baseman and one of the best in the majors, he once deliberately stomped his spiked shoe on Lou Gehrig's foot to make him drop a throw. As a manager who has gone through some soul-searing troubles (e.g., he was fired from the Yankees after finishing third in 1948) he has developed into a fatherly, genial boss. But with untalented discards and untried rookies, Harris (rejoining Washington this year for his third...