Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleep many times a day for at least 40 years. How she managed was a mystery because she had 16 children. She consistently fell asleep at movies, even those she particularly liked. Her eldest son, 47, at first denied the trait because he thought it was normal to fall asleep at family gatherings, in church or at meetings; eventually he admitted an occasion when he drove into a ditch three times on the way home because he got sleepy. Also he often stopped his car for a five-minute...
...family. Their explanation of its inheritance: it "appears to be transmitted as a simple dominant factor with a high degree of penetrance." For the reassurance of road users in the Rochester area; the doctors record hopefully that in the severe cases, including most of the drivers, the tendency to fall asleep has been checked with daily doses of methylphenidate, a mild stimulant and antidepressant...
...E.D.T.) has it made. Last month the good captain got his first new set, an ark called the S.S. Treasure House; last week captain and crew alike made an overland trip to tape their show at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. All the winds are fair, and by fall, Captain Kangaroo will have a full supply of sponsors for the first time...
Although it has taken sponsors a surprisingly long time to fall for Captain Kangaroo's charm, CBS has recognized it, and sometimes rued it, right from the start. Two years ago, when the network announced that economic pressures might force the captain off the air, 10,000 parents protested. CBS suddenly decided that the show would stay, since it was "an excellent public service." One CBS executive put it more bluntly: "We were terrified of the mothers...
...awful conditions have steadily deteriorated since the fall of 1949, when Guido and a boyhood pal named Johnny Noga scraped up $10,000 to go to a sheriff's sale and buy a bankrupt nightclub. Guido deployed his wife Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie...