Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 10,000 words of text, a reading dose readily digestible during an evening's commercials. There are a few short articles on the never-never world of TV, a page of generally toothless criticism, a crossword puzzle beamed at the intelligence quotient of the shoot-'em-up crowd. (Sample crossword puzzler: "Car 54, Where____ You?") Of late, the magazine has erupted in a rash of impressive bylines - Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Scientist Leo Rosten, U.S. President-to-be John F. Kennedy, who exhorted televiewers to demand more honesty in TV political coverage - in a deliberate campaign...
...earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those baskets didn't have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts in 'em. It was a yard of dried fish and a bag of potatoes and maybe a little bag of onions." Friends still recall seeing young John McCormack crouched on a curbstone, reading by the flickering light of a gas street lamp. He devoured dozens of Dick Merriwell* adventures, and he retains...
...Edna, eh? It's always the same: she can't read, hates fresh fruit, and thinks scent is sinful. You gave her a cut-glass rose vase last year and a hand-painted four-in-hand the year before. Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all. Come closer; listen closely...
Squash coach Jack Barnaby's "run 'em ragged' tactics paid off last night as the Crimson blanked M.I.T. 9-0, in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...know what they cost you? Sixty cents a pound. That's what it figures out to. Convenience foods, eh? Remember you still had to boil 'em. You've paid somebody 55? a pound for peeling your potatoes for you. For that kind of dough, I'll peel anybody's potatoes...