Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit Tigers had their own prize bit of the rookie crop in Outfielder Johnny Groth, onetime Navyman (TIME, March 28). Chicago's White Sox had Outfielder Gus Zernial (also ex-Navy), who broke a collarbone four weeks ago chasing a line drive. White Sox fans could hardly wait for Gus to get back into the lineup: he was leading the league with a fancy .355 when he was hurt...
...Producer Louis de Rochemont, who unearthed this somber bit of Americana in the neighborhood of his New England home and passed it on to Reader's Digest, the story was a natural. Past master of the documentary film (MARCH OF TIME, Fighting Lady, etc.) and a vocal opponent of Hollywood's sound stage techniques, De Rochemont set to work on location in Portsmouth, N.H. For his cast he recruited a handful of relatively unknown actors and a group of Portsmouth citizens. For sets he used what "was ready to hand: the chaste interiors of Portsmouth homes...
...Coplon bit her lips, began to twist a handkerchief. From across the room Archie Palmer rasped: "Try to smile, Mrs. Coplon." The old lady immediately burst into tears. Archie, who had a selection of throat lozenges lined up along the jury rail, picked out an orange mint and popped it contentedly into his mouth. Judy held her mother's hands. Judge and jury entered. Said Archie, over the sound of the old lady's sobbing...
...Book of Psalms. In the two years the program has been on the air, Grogan has turned down only one recording because he felt it might be over his audience's heads. He found a record of James Joyce reading a portion of Finnegans Wake "a little bit difficult...
Eggs & Tubes. Another type of testing is done on eggs. A girl technician examines a fertile egg under a strong light, finds the developing embryo, and cuts a square hole in the shell above it. She plants a bit of cancer on the embryo, and seals the hole with a glass window stuck on with wax. The egg is put in an incubator. As the embryo grows, the cancer grows too. The embryo's blood vessels turn aside to supply the cancer, which frequently grows until it is nearly as big as the chick. Drugs are tested by injecting...