Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year ago Coalminer Edwin Midgley of South Kirkby, Yorkshire joined a football pool that netted him a tidy $44,800. With a whoop and a holler, Midgley quit the coal-digging business "forever...
...shifty-eyed gambler who walked into Publisher Sevellon Brown's Providence papers last September had a frontpage story to spill. Pasquale Borino wanted to fill in the Journal and Evening Bulletin on a mob which he said was running the lottery, sweepstakes, race-track and baseball-pool rackets in Rhode Island. But when Bulletin City Editor Leo Son-deregger tried to track down Borino's leads, he found they cut across state lines and involved shadowy national figures...
This week, members of the 14-paper syndicate got their first pooled story, written by Ted Link of the Post-Dispatch (TIME, Nov. 1, 1948) and reporters from the Chicago Daily News and the Miami Herald. A kind of ABC of national crime, it contained no bombshells likely to blow Frank Costello out of his Manhattan apartment. But the new syndicate's bosses were betting that cooperative reporting would make national headlines before long. One promising sign: gangdom was so worried that pool reporters had already been "approached" by the underworld...
...last week Stuffy Walters had reason to hope that he could jump into the fountain pool with no beard at all. Barely five years and four months after Knight added the slipping News to his thriving chain,* it had paid off nearly $8,700,000 of its $12,500,000 mortgage, had a commanding lead over Hearst's rival Chicago Herald-American in advertising, and hoped shortly to pass the Hearstpaper in circulation and become Chicago's biggest afternoon paper...
...normal course of events, Harvard should not lose to the Navy swimming team when the two schools go at it at 3:45 p.m. today in the Annapolis pool. Such a thing has happened only once since swimming coach Hal Ulen came to Cambridge 21 years...