Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report. Said Allen (in 1942 Godfrey was dropped from the Allen show after a six-week experiment): "He's sweeping the country, and, Lord knows, it needs to be swept. But I think Arthur must be doing it with a short-handled broom-he's nearer the dirt than most people." To Allen, Godfrey is a sign of the times: "Millions of people think he's the funniest guy alive, but their standards are open to question. This is an age of mediocrity. Anything mediocre is bound to be a success. As we get more regimented, there...
Things are just as bad at the Molot [Hammer], on Rusakov Street: "There are piles of dirt in the corners. For four years the same [photo] exhibit has been shown. Regular customers at the Molot know that exhibit by heart. The newspapers in the reading room are a year old." Moviegoers may write their gripes in a Complaints Register, but it does not do much good. Reported Evening Moscow's crusading newsmen: "Once a patron asked a question. Mme. Nosovaya, the cashier, refused to answer him. The manager entered in the book: 'The cashier was too busy...
Charlie Merrill and his partners had done their best to overcome both obstacles, and "Bring Wall Street to Main Street." Last year, Merrill Lynch explained stock-market operations to dirt farmers at state fairs (TIME, Sept. 5) and gave lectures on security management to 30,000 women in 65 cities. This year it plans to spend $420,000 on newspaper and magazine ads, almost as much as the New York Stock Exchange itself spends...
After testing scores of thousands of soil samples from all over the world, researchers for Charles Pfizer & Co. Inc. announced last week that they had isolated a new and promising antibiotic from a piece of Indiana dirt. The drug, named terramycin (earth mold) by its Brooklyn discoverers, is secreted by a tiny organism, Streptomyces rimosus, of the same group which has produced three other major antibiotics -streptomycin, aureomycin and Chloromycetin...
...DIRT CHEAP: One pair Wellesley's finest handmade argyles, unworn, size 11, $6.50. See Bill Pulley, Phi Delta Theta. Classified advertisement in The Dartmouth, January...