Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago right now." Between jobs he jerked sodas, carried mail, sold pianos, told jokes in a nightclub owned by Al Capone. On the air, Hawk was the first to broadcast a polo game, a wrestling match and a miniature golf tournament. He claims to have been the first real disk jockey in 1932, when he began cracking jokes between records: "It was real corn, but the people loved...
...photographic film into an eye near the center of the retina, the point where the lens brings the image naturally to a focus. This did not work; eye fluids ruined the film. So he cut a small hole in the rear of the eyeball and placed in it a disk of film about as big as a pea. When an object was held six inches away, the lens of the eye brought its image to a focus on the film. The aperture of this "camera," he figured, was somewhere between fI.9...
...assaulters escaped, and subsequent examination revealed that Chief Randall suffered a ruptured spine disk. Throughout the summer, he was hospitalized and will return only temporarily during the fall until the injury heals...
Across the U.S. last week, Rosemary Clooney's appealing voice was as omnipresent as jukeboxes and disk jockeys. Two of her records were high on the bestseller lists, and a third sold 100,000 in its first week. In a little over a year, she had shot up from the ruck of the second-stringers to rank as No. 1 popular songstress...
...killers, strung out along the field's narrow (10 yds.) "fair" lane, shouted at the disk's approach. Each wielded a hefty Schindel, a "tabletop" with a handle. As the Hornuss zoomed within range, the killers, one by one, sent their Schinden spinning up, sometimes as high as 40 ft., to intercept it. The last killer in line, stationed a full 300 yards from Striker Gruber, finally brought the disk down. Gruber's team got 20 points. If the Hornuss had fallen, unintercepted, in fair territory, heavy penalty points would have been scored against the killers...