Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More About Everything. When some of his students refused to be roused, Ergil announced that he would wrestle any boy who did not turn in homework. Half a dozen or so of the huskier kids took him up. The slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) teacher marched them to the gym, convinced them in successive falls of the importance of hard study. Ergil's qualifications for teaching, it turned out, included wrestling for his alma mater, the University of Istanbul. Other qualifications of Liberal Artist Ergil, now a U.S. citizen: two years of pre-med training, three...
Verdict's set is four-walled and solid as any courtroom. Once the half-hour sessions start, Director Byron Paul has little control over proceedings. When time comes for a commercial, a floor manager flings open a door out of camera range and holds up a sign saying "Suspend." At this signal, the appropriate lawyer usually launches into a long-winded objection, which Court Reporter Jim McKay breaks in on, explaining that here is a chance to hear from the sponsor...
...welcomes ever given a network show. THE VERDICT is DOUBTFUL, snidery headlined the New York Journal-American. "Mockery . . . phoniness . . , guilty as heck," snapped the New York Herald Tribune. Today Verdict easily outdraws its rivals on the most hotly contested hour of the day, has consistently batted among the top half dozen of all daytime shows...
...with gifts, fan mail, flowers (one bouquet came from Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev). Women cried openly at his concerts; in Leningrad, where fans queued up for three days and nights to buy tickets, one fell out of her seat in a faint. When Moscow TV scheduled only the first half of Van's prizewinning performance, the advance protest from Muscovites was so furious that the station scheduled the whole recital, plus encores. Thereafter, in each of the four cities where Van played on his Russian tour, his performance was broadcast on local TV and radio. Russians by the millions have...
...stubbornly to the defensive strategy that experts insisted he was constitutionally incapable of using, Botvinnik, 46, strung out the 23rd game of the tournament until World Champion Vasily Smyslov, 37, broke under the strain. Rather than resume the adjourned game, Smyslov offered a draw by telephone. This gave Botvinnik half a point and the match, 12½-10½. Thus, without even the satisfaction of a handshake, Botvinnik regained the title that he lost to Smyslov last year...