Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality that audiences wince even as they laugh...
Inevitably, the pitfalls just about equal the opportunities, and whole sections of Nickerson's book might be subtitled "On Guard." Example: many brokers understate the age of a building. A trip to the meter will reveal the tattletale yellowed card left by the electrical inspector and stamped with the property's true age. While most tenants are reliable, there is always the hazard of "The Professional Deadbeat...
...Olympic Champion Bobby Morrow, troubled three weeks ago by muscle spasms, faiLed even to qualify in both the 100-and 200-meter dashes, sadly concluded: "I just didn't have it." Impressive winner of both events: lanky speedster Ray Norton, 21, of San Jose State College (TIME, June...
...Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew lost its lead to Syracuse some 200 strokes from the finish line, then came on with a late burst to win by a scant 4 ft. in the 2,000-meter-sprint regatta of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges on Lake Carnegie at Princeton, N.J. A length behind the leaders, Yale finished third-its first rowing defeat since...
...days recently it seemed like old home week at Soldiers Field. Bob Rittenburg, a Harvard track immortal ever since his 26-point performance against Yale in 1955, returned to work himself back into shape. Charley Jenkins, the reigning Olympic 400-meter champion and an old habitue of Soldiers Field, was back, and Tom Courtney, Olympic 800-meter king and now an assistant varsity coach, breezed through a 50.8 440 early in the week...