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...board. From Killarney to Calcutta, more than 3,500,000 tickets (highest total since 1932) on the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes had been sold at ?i apiece. Half the money went for prizes and a fourth for overhead of the Hospitals Trust-still directed by ex-I.R.A. Fighter Joe McGrath, one of three sportsmen who first sponsored the sweeps. After the government took its bite for stamp duty, there was 38. gd. (52?) left out of each ticket for the hospitals. The week's haul of $1,830,000 made a total of $110 million for the 25 years...
...past have suffered from, and have eventually overcome, such problems as lukewarm reviews and extended revisions. What hit Silk Stockings in Boston of January 22 was something entirely new and unexpected. Under the headline: KAUFMANS DISOWN SILK STOCKINGS', the Herald reported how George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written it too extensively. Burrows...
...week, while Lamb prepared his answer to the charges, he was also busy giving another demonstration of his capitalistic prowess. This time it was in a fight for control of Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. (vacuum cleaners). Lamb teamed up with ex-Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, began buying Air-Way stock last spring to gain control. When the management found out about the plan, it tried to merge with Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co., but Lamb blocked the deal. Then Lamb went to court and forced the company to call a special shareholders' meeting...
...Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose between his ever-loving wife and a Central European charmer, while CBS began the run of a new series, Climax, with an examination of the manners and morals (both terrible) of Southern California. The Climax play was based on Raymond Chandler...
...discus at the West Coast Relays and beat World Record Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...