Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 15 priests standing by in a local pub to ensure fair play, Desmond and Joe tossed a coin for the nomination. Joe called "heads" and won the seat. But the question East Tyrone voters are now debating is: Did Joe win fair & square? For the coin they tossed was not of the British variety bearing the Queen's head, but a coin of the Irish Republic, with a harp on one side and a horse on the other. Joe Stewart, say the Mallon partisans, should have called "horses," not "heads...
...mean?" asked Hughes. "When you live like I do," said Johnson, "you get these kind of feelings and you play them." Suddenly, after talking some more, Hughes heard "the damnedest clatter on the phone, as if someone took a stack of quarters and poured them into the coin box in spurts. The phone went dead...
...sighs of relief: Dragnet is a blaring, full-blown version of the theme song of the popular radio-TV show sponsored by Chesterfield. Last week Dragnet was still 19th on the Hit Parade listing, although Variety now put it second among disk jockeys, third in retail, second on coin machines. Would the Hit Parade play a rival cigarette's theme song if it reached the Lucky Strike top seven? "Certainly," snapped a Lucky executive. "We couldn't possibly not play it. Our whole reputation is involved." Is the tune . likely to make...
...Coin for the Boyne...
...airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps." In Paris, Tenn., the Gossets felt a twinge of outraged national pride at the "made in Paris" perfumes. But their spirits revived when they saw a horseman ride up to a parking meter, throw the bridle across the meter, dismount and deposit a coin...