Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powerful Voice. "Our greatest error would be to fashion our foreign policy merely in terms of antiCommunism. We will fail miserably if we do no more than that. If we follow that course, war will soon appear as the only alternative...
Boxing, wrestling, tennis and other sports that are fought out in a small area or follow a prescribed course are apt to be as good on the screen as on the spot. Baseball, football, hockey, horse racing and basketball are tougher problems. Too frequently, watchers are dragged through eye-straining "pans" as the camera races to catch up with the action. Baseball telecasts, says the show business magazine Variety, "are right back where radio was when a batter would rattle a hit off the fence for two bases and Ted Husing would call it a 'Texas Leaguer...
...interest of only 3.34%, and Alleghany is controlled by Young through an interest of less than 1%. Young's interest in Central, "when traced down through Alleghany and the C. & O. amounts to 0.00006% ... so small as to give no positive assurance of the benefits said to follow from such ownership representation...
...evening after dark, follow a Berlin policeman on his route. For some time nothing out of the ordinary will happen; he waves his stick at a 14-or 15-year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains...
...call from Ben Jones in Louisville, four days before the Derby. Whirlaway had Ben worried; he wouldn't go around turns. The more other jockeys fought him, the more he drifted wide. Trouble-shooter Arcaro experimented in a workout; he took a long rein and let Whirlaway follow another horse around the turn. It worked so well that Whirlaway (Arcaro up) won the Derby by eight lengths in the fastest time it has ever been...