Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murrow was the author of TV's most explosive telecast: the March 1954 show that indicted Joe McCarthy out of the Senator's own mouth in film clips. He did not bother to clear the show in advance with CBS. and in turn CBS decided retroactively that it had lent Murrow the network's right to editorialize. The network lists him only as one of its hired hands, but Murrow is something of a power in himself, with his own generously financed domain and the strong personal loyalty of key CBS news staffers. His unique status stems...
...been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made a frank pitch to the effect that the next-to-worthless crucifixes or rosary bracelets were "being sent to you by an enterprise that is owned and operated for the benefit of Murray Kram." Murray did not bother with Irish-sounding names ("I don't think more than 40% or 50% of the people with Irish names are Catholics"), filled his sucker lists with Italian and Slavic names. In 1955 Murray Kram's Religious Distributing Co. grossed...
Many are the refugees who stream across to West Berlin to freedom, and Communist East Germany's general reaction is good riddance. But Kantorowicz's broadcast seemed to bother the Communists very much. Seven tame literary idols, among them Anna (The Seventh Cross) Seghers, were trotted out to condemn their comrade's "stab in the back." Nonsense, retorted Kantor easily, "most of those writers feel the same...
...answers had better be good. All the standard lures-a private bath, a TV set, a good home-are so old hat that few agencies bother to inquire. The woman who wants help soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid...
...heavily to charities and tend their investments,, lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend. But all of a sudden, on a lodge night, I realize...