Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice before, lanky Bill Cashore, 14, of little (pop. 500) Center Square, Pa., had entered the national spelling bee sponsored by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Twice he had been knocked out at the district level. This year, when Bill decided to try again, under the auspices of the Norristown Times-Herald, he knew the odds against him only too well: each spring some 5,000,000 school kids enter the contest from all over...
...want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that promise kisses or threaten bloodied noses. Sudden death and marlin fishing are the he-man business of Captain Harry Morgan: and both are Bogart's field of concentration...
Other atomic batteries have already found jobs. For two years, Radiation Research Corp. of West Palm Beach has been producing small quantities of "At-bee" batteries for radiation-detection instruments. The Atbee produces a smaller current at a higher voltage. It also gets its power from Strontium 90, and its producers say that its efficiency is the same. Unlike the RCAmen, they think it will be a long time before atomic batteries are used by the public...
Peters (Omaha Bee-News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer), spruced up the Commercial with features and syndicated columnists and sounded an independent, liberal voice in the conservative woods of Maine journalism. He boosted circulation but still lost money. For his 100 employees last week, Ewing listed the troubles: "The industry-wide problem of steadily rising operating costs; the [unhappy] economic picture in northern and eastern Maine; the [lack of] local advertising...
...born "to combat the one-party press." At first this seems silly, since it consists mostly of reprints of pro-Democratic articles from newspapers. But a closer look shows that the bulk of the reprints come from but a handful of papers: the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, Washington Post, New York Post, etc. So, the Digest's real purpose is to circulate the Word in areas Democratic newspapers don't reach...