Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed wire as a sign of malingering. Chaplain Choyce discovers in the swarthy soldier a depth of serenity and compassion that makes his own pride crumble into anxious smithereens...
...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...
Then there is Harold Alzana, who walks on a high wire. He also skips rope on a high wire. Finally, he rides a bike on a high wire, carrying a friend on his shoulders and two swinging trapezists from the hubs, Seventy-five feet down a uniformed attendant follows him with outstretched arms, just in case...
...when he sat down in the buzzing committee room and faced the Senators-a subcommittee of the Commerce Committee-he lost no time in sounding his favorite theme; Frank Costello is really a sound, honest, dignified, conservative citizen. The committee, which is considering a bill outlawing interstate racing wire services for gambling information, wanted to know about bookmaking. Costello lighted an English Oval and said, in a voice which rasped like a slot machine gagging on a phony quarter...
...Louis' bland, bankerish James J. Carroll, the Mr. Big of betting, who announces winter book odds on the Kentucky Derby, and "lays off" (in effect, reinsures) all kinds of bets with gamblers across the nation. When he was asked what a bookie needed to operate, beyond the racing wire, he answered with one word: "Money...