Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Coach Barnaby will start the same lineup that met Williams. Broward Craig and Captain Hilliard Hughes will again form the one-two punch and will play first doubles together. Bob Bramhall starts in the third slot and will pool his assortment of eggball and cannonball services with Chase Peterson's kicking twister at second doubles...
...room Desert Inn not only boasted a huge pool and a 35-ft. colored fountain, but in deference to gamblers with "kiddies," a king-size doll house. It had a temperamental French chef named Maurice who specialized in things served on flaming swords (said one awed gambler: "The guy gets excited over a steak"). It boasted a $22,000-a-week floor show, with a chorus line rivaling Manhattan's Copa Girls, Ray Noble's orchestra, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and a trio of French tumblers...
...apartments breathing heavily and looking as disheveled as molting chickens. Garbage piled up outside kitchen doors 26 floors above the street. No mail or newspapers flipped down outside the doors. Grocery boys refused to make high-altitude deliveries, and floor neighbors who had never before spoken got together to pool food supplies...
Times copy is edited so that it "won't turn your stomach at the breakfast table." (An early slogan for the Times was: "Will Not Soil the Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
Just for the books: over $130,000,000 was wagered through pari-mutuel machines at Massachusetts tracks in 1948. Informed estimates indicate that between $100,000,000 and $400,000,000 was involved in off-track, numbers, and sports pool betting. As outlined in the report...