Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free Beer. The borough of Brooklyn (pop. 2,848,000) erupted with joy over their beloved Dodgers' first triumph. A blizzard of paper and ticker tape fluttered from office buildings. Barkeepers served beer on the house, and lunchroom operators handed out free hot dogs. Snake-dancing and parades went on all night. Life was so complete for one Brooklyn rooter that he tried to end it with a suicide leap off Brooklyn Bridge...
Brooklyn's joy was shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned...
Plugging for Captain. While Nixon is widely known and liked among the leaders of his own party across the U.S he has trouble in the Republican organization of his home state. His rapid rise in politics has not been greeted with any joy by two older hands in California Republicanism U.S. Senator William Knowland and Governor Goodwin J. Knight. Nixon and Knight factions have been feuding for a long time; the odds favor a Knight-controlled delegation to the Republican National Convention...
...enough sense to change her tactics to entrap a third. Studio One briefly dismayed its viewers with Reginald Rose's Three Empty Rooms which dealt with a pair of miserably shy newlyweds, but wound up strongly affirming the solidarity of the human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic joy was reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...