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...truck, from supervising the work of a bulldozer, hired for $10 an hour, to stretching fence. The midday quitting time is 11:30 and, after a big meal, Joe stretches out on the parlor floor (which saves taking off pants and shoes to lie on a bed) for a half-hour nap to "let my eats settle." By 12:30 he is back at work. Ordinarily he stops at 6 or 7 o'clock, but in "pinchin' times" he often mans an after-supper shift, and the buckety-buck of his tractor can be heard until...
...Graphic grew a feud that lasts to this day. Says Ed: "Winchell's all through-and I'm an expert on Winchelliana. I've followed him like a hawk. He's a dead duck. He couldn't be resuscitated by injections at half-hour intervals...
...this is what happened to motion pictures." Coe this week begins his new NBC series, Playwrights Hour, with scripts by Chayefsky, Philip Wylie, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. His gloom may be deepened by the fact that his show will run opposite The $64,000 Question during its last half-hour...
...first government communiqué boasted that "the subversive movement is under control," and rebel units "are being dominated." Such claims were absurdly premature. In Córdoba the besieged police headquarters fell to rebel attackers after a half-hour artillery bombardment. From the Puerto Belgrano naval base, 400 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, naval units marched into the neighboring grain port...
Awaking each morning, he puts in a half-hour of concentration on his day's work and an hour of study with his medical journals before he breakfasts and drives to the lab. For the short ride, he carefully straps himself into his 1953 Cadillac (called Godiva, because "it rides beautifully but keeps me out of new clothes") with a lap-type safety belt. On the way home in the late afternoon, he does his own shopping at the base commissary. Time passes quickly. Says he: "Sometimes I feel beaten to death by a steady procession of Decembers...