Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodgers and Giants were neck & neck in fourth place when Durocher and Shotton took over their new jobs last week. Whether either of them could now win a pennant would be one test of the big change. A more immediate test, and more crucial to the club owners, was whether the Giant and Dodger fans who had been staying away from their ball parks most of the season would now throng back...
...shih is not the name he started with, either. Many years ago, he was plain Ch'ih Huang, a carpenter's apprentice from Hunan. After work one day he collected some shrimps, crabs, crickets, and tiny bugs, and put them all into a glass box. "I observed these creatures with my eye," says he, "and put them into my heart." One by one, he painted their "portraits"; and one by one, to his great surprise, he sold what he had painted...
...sometimes visitors, whom Stravinsky likes or dislikes instantly. Says one of his intimate friends, Attorney Aaron Sapiro: "When I bring a guest to his house or a person who wishes to talk to him, Stravinsky will excuse himself after a few minutes, call me to the hallway and say either 'take him away, he's insincere,' or 'I like him, we will enjoy this...
...Stravinsky is not poor, but he is not a rich man either. Had Russia joined the International Copyright Union, he might have been. As it is, all of his early, most performed works have been pirated. He owns his Hollywood house, and recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...
...picture service. Acme developed and transmitted pictures by wire direct from a 1,200-sq. ft. office set up in the basement of Convention Hall, at an estimated cost of $5,000. As a result, Acme moved pictures faster, and often got a better play in the press, than either of its rivals. A.P. lost time by developing and transmitting its pictures at the Philadelphia Bulletin (published by A.P. President Robert McLean), a mile and a half from Convention Hall. Hearst's I.N.P. used a darkroom at the University of Pennsylvania, about a quarter of a mile away...