Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, leafing idly through a magazine one evening, Hal is speared by a finger pointing at him from...
...French air force out to Britain. Hauled up before an air commodore for this escapade, Wintle whipped out his revolver and declared: "If it will help you to realize that I am perfectly serious, you have only to say the word and I will blow this stump of my finger off." Said the air commodore: "If you do it, don't make a bloody mess." Upshot was that Wintle was clapped into the Tower of London, where the admiring Scots Guards on duty plied him with whisky, cigars, and duck in aspic. But Wintle refused to let them clean...
...Facing a firm Teutonic conviction that only Germans can play Bach properly, Kirkpatrick made a bold decision. While he was playing his morning performance, word came that Guitarist Andres Segovia was sick and could not fill his engagement that evening. Kirkpatrick agreed to take over the spot, scheduled a finger-breaking program : the Italian Concerto, the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Goldberg Variations...
...Talbott's request, the subcommittee quickly called a public hearing. The Air Force Secretary, at 67 still black-haired and straight-backed, marched into the hearing room with four officers, including a major general. "This is a shocking thing," he protested heatedly, "to point a finger of suspicion at a man that does not deserve it." Talbott, whose Government pay is $18,000 a year, said that his income from Mulligan & Co. is more than $50,000 a year (no significant change since 1953). Said he: "I was very anxious to retain my interest in Mulligan on account...
...past four years, the nationalized coal tipples have run at a loss), but when it came, Britons set up a howl. "We are frankly staggered," complained the head of the Federation of British Industries (Britain's equivalent of the N.A.M.). Said a Tory M.P., pointing the accusing finger at Tory Minister of Fuel Geoffrey Lloyd: "You will finish up by bankrupting the country...