Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for his fine character acting, Hitchcock is too busy making Hollywood movies to bother much about his TV chores. His astringent lines are written for him by Playwright James (At War with the Army) Allardice, who last year was one of George Gobel's team of gagmen. The TV shows are filmed by a staff of four directors and, of the 39 made this season, Hitchcock will have had a personal hand in only six. But, largely for the prestige of his name, he is rumored to have made "one of the most fabulous deals in TV." After...
...anxious men stood near by. Farm Manager Ivan Feaster, becoming alarmed at the slow process of birth, raced off to call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
...dental laboratories at first worked legitimately for dentists. Soon many of them slipped over the line of Illinois law into dealing directly with patients. Some, like Mrs. Jones's operators, hire a dentist for extractions ; others do not even bother to put up this false front. Most use the sign "Broken plates repaired" as a come-on; many advertise same-day service -some promise it in one hour...
...League of Women Voters, exposed an important problem when they accused Harvard and M.I.T. of failing to give the City sufficient co-operation on its plans for urban development. In the opinion of many local citizens, Harvard considers itself too important on a national and international level to bother with the problems of the mere community in which it happens to be located. Unfortunately, the University has at times given Cantabrigians good reason for this resentful attitude. No longer can Massachusetts Hall fail to realize, however, that Cambridge's troubles are Harvard's troubles too. Unlike the many families...
...summer afternoon in 1890, a gawky farm hand named Denton True Young came down from "the Ohio hills to try out as a pitcher for the Canton baseball team of the Tri-State League. He had no uniform, and the Canton manager did not even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone...