Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she parks on side roads near her Larchmont home "to escape housework, interruptions from the kids and television." But last week Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which her husband, Walter Kerr, is drama critic). She made it clear at the offset that she was not qualified to talk about TV at all, "but like so many unqualified people," she had opinions. One of them was about commercials: "What disturbs...
Urged on by enterprising travel agencies, foreigners were crowding into every corner sacred to the English heart. Crew-cut Americans festooned with photographic equipment were everywhere. Saris and West African tribal robes drew only passing glances at such strongholds of the Savile Row sack suit as Claridge's and the Dorchester. The harsh accents of Sydney and Melbourne bounced almost unnoticed off the walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard...
Disguising themselves as American tourists with cigars and cameras as props, contraband officers called at the fashionable antique shop of "F. Renn-Rain-world famous and unique," just below Rome's Spanish Steps. There was nothing Etruscan to be seen, but the salesman steered them around the corner to a 17th century palace at No. 77 Via della Croce. First, the officers put a watch on No. 77, keeping an eye on middlemen entering and purchasers leaving the place. Last week officers raided No. 77 and confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found...
...trundled in Jackie Robinson to greet the newlyweds. After some cued-in applause and plugs for Jackie (as an executive of Chock Full o' Nuts and publicity man for Look), there was a telegram from Floyd Patterson, also arranged by NBC: "All the world is in your corner." Then in rich, sepulchral tones, Announcer Paige chimed: "Today, just as at other weddings, it's traditional that gifts be given to the bride. This is the moment you've been waiting for. This Bell portable sewing machine, the world's finest. This gleaming Westinghouse freezer brings...
...headlines blossomed, fearful mothers pulled their children from parks, police began patrolling from one corner of the city to another, and a magistrate called for a midnight curfew for everyone under...