Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ante. In Roxbury, Mass., six housewives forfeited $10 each for playing poker on Sunday-on complaint of their husbands...
...took a long time to investigate the call. The police chopped away the Collyers' bolted front door, and were confronted by a solid mass of newspapers, cartons, old iron, broken furniture. Finally a patrolman went up a ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...
Italy's Communist Party last week introduced to history one of its heroes: the man who shot Benito Mussolini. The tyrannicide turned out to be a tall (6 ft.), sallow, jowly bookkeeper called Walter Audisio. As he mounted the platform before a Communist mass meeting in the ruins of Rome's Basilica of Constantine, clutching a bunch of red carnations, he bit his lips to keep them from trembling...
Myrrh Was Twit's. Allen comes honestly by the common touch. He was born John Florence Sullivan, 52 years ago, on the lace-curtain-Irish fringe of Cambridge, Mass. His father was a bookbinder. His mother died when he was three, and he and his brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention...
Black & White Ahead. CBS argued that its "sequential" system* was commercially feasible. Its sets could be made for only 10 to 30% more than black & white ones (actually, CBS presented no plans to have them mass-produced). But the most potent argument of CBS's President Frank Stanton was that color was the only thing which could really get public interest. The public could take black & white or leave it alone. (Even now there are only about 10,000 black & white receivers in use.) But the public would go for television color as it had gone for color...