Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combat Pay. In Albany. X.Y.. the court of appeals ruled that Messenger Boy James Johnson, who got banged in the eye with his own misaimed paper clip, was entitled to $228.64 workmen's compensation because such shenanigans are the common pursuits of unoccupied messenger boys...
...trim the costs of handling policies, Continental relies on a giant IBM 705 computer to do the figuring, pays only a $1.75 commission on new policies (v. an industry-wide average of 20-30% of the first year's premiums), depends chiefly on newspaper ad coupons that prospects clip out and send in. Continental lumps all applicants in a state together, in effect handles the individual policies as if they were members of a group plan, thus spreading the risk and reducing the premium cost by as much as two-thirds...
...California three years ago, go karting has grown into a coast-to-coast sport and attracted something like 100,000 lead-footed devotees from six to 60. This year, say the addicts, another 100,000 will go kart crazy. New clubs are springing up at a one-a-day clip, and in California, a town of 5,000 can draw 10,000 visitors for a race. This week Westbury, L.I. will inaugurate a track for the tiny racers, one of 3,500 around the U.S. Nor is the U.S. alone in the sport; go karting is growing at full throttle...
...Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, characteristically retaining control only of the account books. And last week, for a reported $5,000,000 cash, the Hearst heirs sold the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (circ. 174,343), which has been losing money at an appalling $3,000,000 annual clip, to the independent Post-Gazette (circ. 272,797). A six-day morning paper, the Post-Gazette will publish mornings, evenings and Sundays as the Post-Gazette & Sun-Telegraph...
Stony-broke and close to hunger, he trusted his dervish genius to see him through. Sometimes typing "a slab of 10,000 words every two days," Durrell reeled off his tetralogy at an astonishing clip: Justine (about four months), Balthazar (six weeks), Mount olive (two months), Clea (seven weeks). His major defect, he feels, is overwriting, a prose style that is "too juicy...