Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally revealed his ignorance both of news and the requirements of television production . . . Surely, Stanton must know that [Person to Person's^ cameras, lights and microphones don't just wander around the home. The producers must know who is going where and when and for how long. My conscience is clear. His seems to be bothering...
Burning to teach, Jim Babinetz, 19, of Trafalgar, Ont., enrolled last month at suburban Toronto's Long Branch Teachers College. Last week Jim was dropped from school. The reason: "Gross obesity." His record as a star four-sport athlete in high school was no defense. Though 6 ft. tall, he weighed 278 Ibs., had a 44-in. waist, 51 -in. hips when he entered college. Explained an official: "He wouldn't make a good teacher. Obesity in teachers has a bad effect on children. There must be a limit to the size of teachers...
...Tell them I'm finger painting," said veteran Newspaper Cartoonist Edmund Duffy when someone recently tried to invade his comfortable retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long...
...Purdue (3-1-1)-threw in fresh platoons all afternoon long to overpower Iowa...
...property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 the tomb was opened by the president of the Royal Society. Inside was "the complete skeleton of a boy, three feet, three inches long." For years, on a plaque above the tomb, visitors to Lincoln Cathedral could read a full account of the story, softened only by a small postscript casting doubt on its authenticity. Last week the plaque disappeared. To replace it, a new version was being lettered: "Trumped up stories...