Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chalk & Flour. The day their prize outfielder was separated from the Army, the Giants had a savvy scout named Frank Forbes, 61, waiting at the gate to take him in tow. An oldtime Negro athlete (baseball, basketball and boxing), Forbes is the professional godfather to the Giants' Negro ballplayers. With his other charges safely married, Forbes's main preoccupation is Willie...
...might get mixed up with. He'd have to live in Harlem, and believe me, that can be a bad place, full of people just waiting to part an innocent youngster from his money. Somebody had to see to it that Willie wasn't exploited, sift the chalk from the flour, figure out who was in a racket and who was representing a decent organization...
Young Rosewall fought back through a fine last set. But now, for the first time in eleven tries at Wimbledon, Old Drob was running into luck. Low drives that hit the net cord dropped in for him, high lobs kicked up chalk on the baseline and his big service took on a wallaby's hop. With the score at 8-7, Drobny smacked across an ace on a second serve. The final point was an ace as well...
Droodles (Mon. 8 p.m.. NBC). A new comedy quiz with Chalk-Talker Roger Price...
...alcohol detection machine. One model has a simple arrangement that needs only a blood specimen from the suspected inebriate for its operation. Another requires the consumption of large quantities of water. Yet many still have little faith in the new devices and lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy distance, he prepared to give...