Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chicago, Golfer Sam Snead, for the second straight year, to become 1950's leading money winner (a record $35,758), and to take the Vardon Trophy for the lowest average-round score (69.23 strokes...
...Miami, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias over the field (in six major 1950 tournaments), to become the leading money-winning (a record $14,800) woman golfer...
...later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday night game (as offensive to "religious people"), and the Chandler project (disowned by the owners) to hire Public Relations Expert Steve Hannagan for $50,000, plus $150,000 in expense money, to "publicize" baseball's golden jubilee next year...
...recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
...life was laced with women of comparatively easy virtue to whom he was unfailingly kind and, when he had money, generous. One sued him; another just missed him with a knife; still another married him, or at least they lived together as man & wife. Cora Taylor was devoted to him, but only a romp with his tiny nieces ever brought a smile to the face of Stephen Crane. His life had a kind of luckless ill grace as if he had been selected fate's prize guinea...