Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard Shaw, 92, applying for a two-year membership in the London Vegetarian Society, slyly suggested that the rules be amended-just this once-to make his ?1 fee good for his lifetime...
...weird make-up and atom story were to celebrate April Fools' Day. Though the stunt was hoary, Pageant's 32-year-old Editor Harris Shevelson thought it had worked well enough for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in prewar days to give the alien corn a try. For his nonsense section, Shevelson had even lifted one old'gag directly from the Zeitung: pictures of "man's first attempt to fly by his own lung power...
...Developed by California's Altec Lansing Corp., it does not hide a speaker's face, does not boom when he gets too close, is omnidirectional and can be hidden anywhere on a television production stage. The fact that it can be hidden in a boutonniere might make it useful to sleuths-friend...
...high time, thought State Representative Floyd L. Snyder, that the Missouri Waltz be established as Missouri's official state song. He introduced a bill to make it so. Then, to be sure all his fellow legislators could hum what they were voting for, he invited the orchestra of Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes) to swing through it for them. There was only one thing Snyder forgot: the lyrics...
Wally Ris, the only man to captain Iowa's team two years running, was ambitious to be a varsity football player rather than a swimmer, still regrets that he didn't make the gridiron grade. He didn't take up swimming until he hurt a knee playing high-school football. The knee still bothers him. His favorite story is how it clicked back into place before his big Olympic race, while he was marching to the flagpole for some welcoming ceremonies...