Word: meadowbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Room 310. One morning last month, at her family's home in Hewlett Harbor, L.I., Sharry Rubin sought emotional satisfaction, probably for an unconscious need, by gorging herself. She put away the equivalent of three full meals, including a lot of meat. In midafternoon she was admitted to Meadowbrook Hospital with crippling abdominal pain; early in the evening, when doctors were about to operate, she died...
Today the Robin Robertses live on Robin Hood Road in the Philadelphia suburb of Meadowbrook with their two children (Robin Jr., 5, and Danny, 2) and a 3½-year-old Welsh corgi presented to Robin by an upstate New York fan. Mary Ann, who dutifully goes to Connie Mack Stadium when Robin is pitching a home game and turns on radio or TV when he performs on the road, still makes no pretense of being a baseball buff. She admits to knowing precious little about how the other players are doing, is sure only that so far, this season...
Sixteen years ago, a young (26), up & coming golf pro named Sam Snead defeated Old Pro Gene Sarazen in the first Goodall Round Robin golf tournament. Snead, a prodigious hitter, beat the old pro in a tight play-off for the title. Last week, on Long Island's Meadowbrook course, Snead, now an old pro himself, made certain that no young upstarts got within hailing distance...
Close the Eyes. There are lively descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook bridge and shot into the mob, killing his mechanic and injuring a mixed bag of bystanders...
...Make Hit Records." The old circuit of "prestige houses," which included such famed spots as New Jersey's Meadowbrook and Chicago's Blackhawk, now scrambles for top soloists more than top bands. With rare exceptions, the theaters that used to pay Goodman and Shaw $10,000 a week are gone. Recording companies nowadays play for the hit song, the one-shot success; the disk jockey, who can make or break a record, rules the roost...