Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although radio interview's with holdup victims are old hat. Victim Harry Ingersoll, 44, a San Antonio loan company owner, reluctantly set a precedent last week in the annals of crime broadcasting. He was interviewed by San Antonio's KITE while the robber still held a gun on him. KITE's Newsman Harry Van Slycke picked up a police alarm of a holdup at Ingersoll's office, rang up Ingersoll and turned on a tape recorder. At the scene of the crime, the young gunman ordered Ingersoll to answer the call and act natural...
...Acute FBItis sets in; then comes that death rattle of farce, when the play is in infinitely worse trouble than the characters. For all its earlier bounciness, Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? eventually seems as long-drawn-out as its title, and pretty nearly as old hat...
...hat is really off to TIME for the recognition shown our Missileman Wernher von Braun. Every living American should feel deeply indebted to this man for his never-ending effort toward guarding the security and well-being of our American way of life...
...Never," brags Jackson, "have I violated confidences or tried to scoop fellow reporters by virtue of knowing something as a legislator that they might not know as newsmen." But it is fellow newsmen who have now brought Jackson's hat tricks under fire. John S. Knight's Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 161,624) lectured him on ethics in an editorial headed
...panic, Tsubame passed the hat and raised $20,000 to send Mayor Ko Tamaki to Washington with nine other delegates to see the President. (It also stopped building the road after 50 yards.) They brought along petitions signed by 14,000 townspeople and a stack of pleading letters written by schoolchildren in halting English. ("Mayor Tamaki as well as the folks in the town of Tsubame is now in a fix with your plan to raise the duty.") The President did not see the delegation, but it did get in to visit third-echelon officials...