Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge, meanwhile, the Civic Association also predicted victory for its candidates. Russell Peck, CCA publicity director, said, "we have high hopes for success. We expect to get at least six out of nine candidates on the City Council and four out of six on the School Committee." The Cambridge results will not be known for at least a week, he pointed out, because of the proportional representation voting system...
Almost immediately, toothy Premier Dong found that he had chewed off a peck of troubles. When, last fortnight, he held his first Cabinet meeting (absent: President Ho), Hanoi's streets were still littered with the debris of Typhoon Kate, which had sunk junks and barges, torn up railroad tracks, burst dikes and spun off thatched roofs as though they were flying saucers. Although Hanoi is swarming with Russians, East Germans, Poles and Chinese (a Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet...
...gave her a chance to get into local football games free, as a member of the Central Catholic High School band. What she thought she wanted then was to become a psychiatrist-largely because she had seen the movie Spellbound (in which Ingrid Bergman played psychiatrist to Gregory Peck's paranoid guilt complex). But then Lillian began to listen to such jazz artists as Baritone Saxman Gerry Mulligan and Trumpeter Chet Baker, and she became enthusiastic about her trombone...
...Shame on TIME for devoting so much precious space to capitalist puffery. We have to admit, however, we enjoyed the profile of Gussie Busch, "the original Peck's Bad Boy" and his fermented empire...
...Gussie Jr. says, "a kid just couldn't have had more." Friends remember young Gussie as difficult for other children to get along with, recall that he was hot-tempered and impatient with dogs and horses. Says Gussie himself: "Let's just say I was the original Peck's Bad Boy." He went to Fremont Public School in St. Louis, then tried Smith Academy, a private school. "Without doubt," says Busch, "I was the world's lousiest student. I never graduated from anything." Instead, Gussie Busch learned his lessons at the brewery, where he first went...