Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock radio in the softly shadowed bedroom clicked on at 7:30 sharp, and the sleepers in the twin beds stirred slightly to the slushy beat of Mantovani and Softly as in a Morning Sunrise. The husband got up first to put on the coffee and slip a record on the hifi. As his wife relaxed for a few minutes more, planning her day, she could just hear the treacly organ notes of Music for Meditation dripping from the living-room Bozak...
...radio listener's ear is with a headline. In Manhattan last week, the latest Nielsen ratings of radio shows placed a news show, NBC's News of the World (with Morgan Beatty) in the No. i spot, and four others (Lowell Thomas, NBC 8 O'Clock News, Richard Harkness, NBC 7 O'Clock News) in the top ten. In San Francisco Pollster George Gallup warned the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors that radio is a serious news rival; 39 million U.S. homes get a daily newspaper and 41 million homes have...
...misfits who, if they cannot be assimilated, must be eliminated." Last week West Pointer Clarke reported that more than 4,200 misfits had been sent home for discharge, another 3,000 put through special remedial courses. But some 41,000 low-grades still burden Clarke's round-the-clock training program in an age when atomic war requires bright, trained specialists and combat troops able to think and operate in small, independent units...
...apartment, hung with the works of Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard, Degas, Van Gogh and Manet, the new portrait of the lady of the house last week had the place of honor. Albright's Mary Block (see cut) sits in a phosphorescent glow by a cluttered table with a clock turned away from her (because she was a clock watcher at sittings, and, Albright quips, "it makes the painting timeless"), grim, bejeweled, glaring back at her beholders, a macabre vision tinted with a pale green note of decay...
That Dow-Jones Boy. Pat allows himself one eccentricity besides the beard. He collects clocks, has "20 or 30 of them," mostly ornate gilded continental models with trick features. Samples: a globe-shaped item with a set-in castle scene over which the sun and moon rise at appropriate times; a miniature tower clock in a living-room painting that goes off every 15 minutes ("You should be around at midnight. It's orgiastic...