Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of a breakdown in Trinity's electrical scoring device, touches had to be determined by chalk marks, a long and laborious process. In an attempt to expedite proceedings, three touches instead of the usual five were worth a point...
Idle Fear. Her travels have taken Siobhan from Broadway (The Chalk Garden, The Rope Dancers ) and off-Broadway (Saint Joan) shows to London movies
...subway coach windows-at $2,000 a day for four displays in each car-or bought space in neighborhood papers, e.g., the Greenwich Village Villager, which was not affected by the strike. On 42nd Street, Stern's department store installed eight pretty girls in show windows to chalk sales specials on blackboards, got so much response that the girls may be used even after the newspapers are back. Radio station WMCA began selling retail announcements on a half-hour program hitherto devoted to public service, sold all available time 48 hours in advance...
...while holding a coffee cup). The contestants also sang, played musical instruments, recited. Miss Georgia (Jeannette Arlene Ardell, 19; 35½-24-36) punctured four balloons with her bow and only seven arrows; and Miss Maryland (Mary Roberta Page, 18; 36-24½-36) drew a horse in luminous chalk...
Justice-in-a-Jiffy. A short, stocky man, who presided over every kind of case, from the unsuccessful libel suit brought by Harold Laski against the paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich...