Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...providing an office, auditing and legal services, a legal address outside College rooms, and risk capital, the new institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...fashions are indeed "A Little Bit Monsterish." Apparently Paris' idea of fashion is to see who can conceive the most ridiculous outfit at the highest price...
...through the University of North Dakota (as a soda jerk and clothing-store clerk), ran the 100-yd. dash on the track team. "I was getting awfully tired of running second all the time," he recalls. "Alongside the university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have to lift my legs, I'd have to get strength, I'd have to get stamina. Any Chinaman can see that." Result: a ten-flat 100 and a university record that managed to stand for five years...
...from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like a murder committed by a European...
...Murrow's outpourings of energy, See It Now is a complex team operation. Almost as important to the show as Murrow is big (6 ft. 2 in.), bustling Co-Producer Fred W. Friendly, 43, who went to work with him eleven years ago after proposing the idea for their I Can Hear It Now, a replay from the recording files of voices and history of 1932-45, brought out by Columbia Records. The record and its sequels led to a radio program, and then to the TV show. Without film training or TV experience, Murrow and Friendly together worked...