Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beer-hall picket knocked over a can of malt beer that had just been bought by a woman customer. The woman called the police. Within minutes, police and an angry crowd of several thousand were scuffling. The blacks set the beer hall on fire, stormed the city jail, and freed all the prisoners. Some even dared the soldiers and police to shoot them, taunted, "You are too frightened by the United Nations." The soldiers and police obliged: by the end of the day, twelve Africans had been shot to death...
...Lydia, by 1941, was F-1's chief cartographer. When the infamous female double agent "La Chatte" betrayed the Fi, Lydia began a grim tour of Nazi prisons, ending in Ravensbrueck concentration camp, where, nearly dead from torture and disease, ravished by her guards, she was at last freed in 1944 by the Swedish Red Cross...
...Manhattan, Superjock Alan Freed, already fired by WABC radio, lost his second job in two weeks, was sacked by WNEW-TV. Showing up for his final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a group of record distributors in thanks for his services. What services? Had he ever taken payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with...
Apart from Freed's exit, the liveliest deejay purge occurred in Detroit, where President George B. Storer undertook a radical housecleaning of his Storer Broadcasting Co. (five TV and seven radio stations in nine cities). Three deejays at Detroit's WJBK bit the dust, as did one Joe Niagara in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, ABC's affiliate WXYZ chopped down still another in Detroit. Of the fallen, Detroit's Tom Clay was the first to tell his story in detail-and a fascinating, lurid story...
...smiles of delight to millions of U.S. housewives. The remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife from long hours at the stove, made her more conscious of sound nutrition, provided her with a happily bewildering variety of foods and delicacies. A few years ago it took the housewife 5½ hours to prepare daily meals for a family of four; today...