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...Pulse, Inc. uses the technique of the doorbell-ringing personal interview. Its interviewers, all married women (men might incite neighborhood gossip), visit a cross section of homes in 64 markets. When they establish that a family has watched TV that day or the day before, they jog the viewer's memory by displaying a program schedule for the period and asking what was seen before or after normal household activity, e.g., shopping, dishwashing, linked to particular hours of the day. Every tenth interview is checked by a letter to the family from Pulse. For the average half-hour nighttime...
...time turned out (1952) the lusty, lengthy (two volumes, 1,731 pp., 840,000 words) novel, Sironia, Texas, which told in raw, unselective detail everything that happened in 20 years to some 30 major characters; of a heart attack in his auto after completing his thrice-weekly, mile-long jog around the Municipal Stadium track; in Waco, Texas...
...Stevenson, the trip around California was the jog of a man running well ahead. He went to bean dinners, box suppers and strategy lunches. At Sacramento he was serenaded to the tune of Love and Marriage with...
...Honorable Man. Somehow, Archie finds time for work, too. He is up at 5 every morning for a four-mile jog with his 14-year-old pacer, Bobby Cormier. Younger Kenwood boys follow the runners as far as they can, but usually drop out before long. Later come the calisthenics, the bag work and at least three rounds of sparring. Everything is nicely calculated to send Archie into the ring a rock-hard 185 lbs. on Sept. 20 against the fearsome, favored (1-3½) Rocky Marciano...
...wizened, pixylike Irishmen who had worked 50 years in the West Point tailor's shop, and remembered fitting the Eisenhower uniform when the President was a plebe back in 1911. For a military man it was an unexpected thing to do, but the President broke ranks at once, jog-trotted clear out of the parade, and began gagging with the Walshes; when he subsequently caught up with the slow-marching alumni, he grinned and noted his unmilitary lapse: "Let's not mess this up." "Leadership," the President said in a speech after lunch that day in the high...