Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland Browns, best in the eastern division of the pro football league, trotted onto Cleveland's Municipal Stadium field last Sunday to play the Detroit Lions, best in the West, for the 1954 football championship of the U.S. The game was figured close: the Lions, champs for the past two years, were the favorites by a slight margin. But the Browns went wild and won in a stunning, runaway upset. Score...
...Dock. So that passengers will no longer have to cross rainswept airstrips between airplane and terminal, Whiting Corp. has installed a new, covered loading platform for passengers and luggage at New York International Airport. After the planes land, they are taxied onto trucks on sunken tracks, then towed by an electric winch until flush with the terminal landing and permanent conveyor belt for baggage. Price: about...
Weaver has already launched a "Wise Old Men" series to bring such elders as Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Bernhard Berenson onto TV screens, and he likes to talk of whole future programs devoted to cultural events. But Weaver's principal preoccupation is still the problem of turning his gamble into a success among televiewers and advertisers...
Some of the week's most noteworthy events took place offstage and underwater. Colgate-Palmolive, sponsor of CBS's nighttime version of Strike It Rich, the show that trots misery right onto the stage and peddles soap with it, announced it was dropping the show at year's end. This good news for good taste was tempered by the fact that the same sponsor apparently plans to continue the NBC daytime version of Strike It Rich...
...turns his attention to his guest. "Take him softly now," he croons. "Easy. Easy. Work him with style. That's it, up slowly with the rod, now reel in fast. Suave. With style. With style. Don't break his mouth." After the second fish at last flops onto the deck, Hemingway continues his reflections. "The right way to do it-style-is not just an idle concept," he says. "It is simply the way to get done what is supposed to be done. The fact that the right way also looks beautiful when it's done...