Word: pencilers
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...Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...
...riveter had a tiny steel splinter imbedded deep in his left eye near the retina. Unable to reach it frontally the surgeon laid open the back of the eyeball. Then an assistant moved a pencil-like divining rod over the surface until he located precisely the right spot. The surgeon made two small incisions, moved the tip of an electromagnet close, and out popped the splinter...
Since he was six years old, the expert has been painting--water colors, oils, pencil drawings, even etchings--but his favorite is pastel work. He paints things as he sees them, "realistically," he says, and he hates "modern stuff." "Symbols and bright colors don't make a painting," is his comment--"I'd rather have the paint in a tube...
...your are ready for bed. Fall asleep. Dream of a Saturday Quiz. Take up your pencil. That's right. Now with deft, steady strokes, play tic, tac, toe on all the odd questions and tiddley winks on all the even ones. Who knows, you might even get the right answer, and besides, won't Dr. Tatum be surprised...
...shirt and pants anyway. Clothing saves skin on the trip down a rope or a rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...