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...this particular morning, I put Barbara out into the wide open spaces of our big backyard and called the president's office. He was busy. Among other things, 18,000 of his workers were on the eve of a strike. After three more calls, I was told to call again in five minutes. To get everything just right for the interview, I went upstairs to a bedroom and closed the door. The lock on the door is broken, but I clicked the door shut with my foot, picked up the bedside phone. With pencil and pad in hand...
Before dawn one day last week, a program director and six technicians from KDYL-TV parked their mobile unit in the backyard of the County General Hospital in Salt Lake City and set up telecasting equipment in the infirmary's amphitheater. At 7 o'clock, when the sun had barely risen and the station's regular viewers were not expected to have reached for their selector knobs, Dr. Robert S. Warner stood before a camera and explained that the upcoming program was intended for doctors only. However, there was no way to keep the general public from...
...least bad?" The Frenchman meditated and answered: "The one with the smallest number of parts, for the parts are all bad, too." Sikorsky forthwith bought a 25-h.p., three-cylinder Anzani engine, took it back to Kiev, and began building a flying machine himself in his father's backyard summerhouse. It was a rude helicopter. It snorted, flapped, and vibrated, but stayed stubbornly on the ground. To Sikorsky's delight, however, it lifted 357 Ibs., only 100 Ibs. less than its own weight, when attached to a scale...
...sign in the Liquor & Tobacco Shop in Moscow [News in Pictures - Oct. IQ] also reads Priem posudy proisvoditsa vo dvore, which, freely translated, means that the "empties are picked up in the backyard...
Brittain had shown the promise right in Beaverbrook's own backyard. At 25, after making a name as a reporter and editor, he became assistant editor of Beaver-brook's Sunday Express, three years later was named editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch. In 1934 Brittain started out on his own. borrowed $1,600 to buy a weekly, Recorder, which had a circulation of only 700. He built it into a moneymaker, boosted its circulation to 22,500 and put together a chain of eleven other weeklies and trade papers...