Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Prime Minister. Last week former Supreme Allied Commander Alfred Gruenther, long impregnable to a bombardment of invitations by the three programs, maneuvered a skillful surrender. At his request and in full view of Washington newsmen, a Pentagon pressagent solemnly dropped three slips of paper into a hat, each marked with the name of a different show. Then, eyes averted, he fished out the winner: Face the Nation, which triumphantly booked him for this Sunday's show...
...crash came. When I was twenty-eight my personal crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what...
...Milwaukee, home of some 7,000 Americans of Hungarian background, another plane brought a cargo of 73, fresh from the perilous escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...
When Walter Winchell began wearing his hat into U.S. living rooms last month as the M.C. of a new half-hour variety show (Fri. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T.. NBC), he got off in a burst of puffs and plugs, especially in his own syndicated column. Crowed Columnist Winchell: "The show got the highest rating of all programs at that time. Over 3,000 telegrams came in from the 48 states, mainly from the 'little people' and the biggest movie stars." But after two weeks the show's Trendex ratings fell behind CBS's Zane Grey...
While U.S. men piled up medals, U.S. women did well to stay close behind women from the Eastern European countries. Czechoslovakia's Olga Fikotova, a 24-year-old medical student, spun the discus 170 ft. 1½ in. to whip Russian "hat girl" Nina Ponomareva with ease...