Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mental hygiene expert with a long memory feels that the music is no more suggestive than swing, and that the youthful dances are no more dangerous than the Charleston. Pop Record Maker Mitch Miller, no rock 'n' roller, sums up for the defense: "You can't call any music immoral. If anything is wrong with rock 'n' roll, it is that it makes a virtue out of monotony." For the prosecution, the best comment comes indirectly from Actress Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday: It's just not couth, that...
...Pirates. The tall, rugged first baseman leads the league in home runs (17) and is second in hitting (.377). A fortnight ago he set a major-league record by hitting the ball into the stands in eight consecutive games, had to come out of the dugout for a curtain call after the last homer when delighted Pittsburgh fans raised a fuss that stopped the game cold. At 30 Long is one of the oldest Pirate regulars (average age of the regular lineup: 25). For a while it looked as if he would never make the majors. He bounced around eleven...
...phone call came while Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was dressing. "Dr. Snyder thinks you'd better get down here right away," said the White House telephone operator. Jim Hagerty managed to gulp a glass of milk and two pieces of toast-and rushed off to two sleepless days of a grueling news marathon. While the drama's main actor lay behind the scenes, Jim Hagerty held the center of the stage, almost the only source of public information on the President's condition until Ike was well out of danger...
...Hagerty parried persistent questions on whether he thought Ike would still run for reelection. Finally, in a mixture of relief and fatigue, he gave way. "Do you expect to be around here another four years?" tried Agronsky. Chuckled Hagerty: "I think so." Soon afterward, just 36 hours after the call from the White House, Jim Hagerty finished a job well done and went home...
...stayed on even after Henry Wallace took over, rose through a succession of posts culminated by the associate directorship of OWI during the first years of World War II. Then, in 1943, he moved out of Washington to become president of Kansas State. There he remained until the call came from Pennsylvania...