Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traveler Lowell Thomas with the familiar, savagely cheerful cry ("This is your life"), Thomas simply refused to play. An old hand at radio and TV himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created as a half-hour soap opera. Thomas snarled: "I think this is a sinister conspiracy." Edwards dissolved into a nervous giggle from which neither he nor the program ever quite recovered...
Derby Days. Last week, along the Vineyard coast, Oscar was carefully working all the likely rocks that he had spotted in half a century of stalking the striper. The big ones were running in their annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
...this week by the nongovernmental National Planning Association, puts forth new evidence that the U.S.S.R. has no chance to match the economic level of the U.S. in the foreseeable future. Economist Nove flatly rejects Khrushchev's boast that the Soviets have boosted their industrial output to more than half the U.S. level. That claim, says Nove, who was born in Russia, is "based on an absurdly inadequate commodity sample." He figures that "40% is possible," but one-third of the U.S. level is closer to the truth...
...Trader. Richardson was born in the East Texas town of Athens in 1891, the seventh son of a farmer and cattle raiser. Encouraged and coached by his father, Sid began trading, at 17 made $3,500 by shrewd cattle dealing. For a year and a half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout...
Then Sapphire's brother (Earl Cameron), a physician from Warwickshire, steps into the detective's office wearing the resigned half-smile of the perennial underdog. His skin is as dark as Sapphire's was fair. "Our mother was black; our father was white," he explains. "You never know how it's going...