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...slums were a shattering experience. "I thought they were all in the East," wrote one horrified schoolboy. "I found one house," little Helen Baird reported, "with sewage right in front and children playing...
...that followed, Preview steadied down into a sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that old TV standby...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...
...Redbird got away first, and for almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half length...
...Gamesman: 'I was fortunate enough to meet your daughter on Sunday.' " Layman: 'Yes, indeed - I know. She told me.' " Gamesman: 'What wonderful hair - a real Titian.'" Layman: 'Oh - no - that can't have been my daughter - that was Ethel Baird.' " Gamesman: 'Really. But I thought I was talking to your - ' " Layman: 'You were, but that was earlier on.'" Gamesman: 'Was it - but what was the colour of your daughter's hair?" Layman: 'Well-a sort of brown-' Gamesman: "Of course. Of course...