Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...
...Large. Because its stories are based on actual cases, Dragnet breaks a few taboos. A program dealing with sex criminals "drew not one official or unofficial protest," and the city of Detroit borrowed the recording (minus the advertising plugs for Fatima cigarettes) as the climax broadcast of a campaign against sex crimes. The most mail was pulled by a Christmas show called "The Rifle." It dealt with a small boy who found the hiding place of his Christmas-present rifle in plenty of time to kill a playmate. The National Rifle Association protested strongly. Webb turned their letter over...
...years the coming of spring has brought one of Boston's finest traditions, the Pops concerts. Tuesday night the Boston Symphony Orchestra minus its top men in each section opened the sixty-fifth Pops season. Almost nothing has changed...
...happened to notice Hal Moffie, a well-known outfielder working out around second. Captain John Caulfield, a familiar sight to baseball fans in right field, was playing in a little close. In fact he was holding down first as the ball was pegged around the infield. Cliff Crosby, minus the pads, and mask was using a five fingered glove in a pepper game. "He's been playing third," someone told...
...German propagandist George Sylvester Viereck,* Peter disowned his father's politics while still at Harvard, spent the war years as a sergeant with the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army. Minus his flowing tie, 33-year-old Poet Peter becomes Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Ph.D., a brilliant, right-of-center political theorist (Metapolitics; Conservatism Revisited) and associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke...