Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than twice the rating of its runner-up, ABC. Unlike the rest, it never took a rest and was on the air longest (14 hours 38 minutes), while collars wilted and whiskers sprouted. Like CBS, it had the enterprise to go to Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore to pick up interviews and color...
...football coach. Born on a ranch and a seasoned charro (cowboy) by the time he was 13, Humberto was sent to a Mexico City military academy, where he got acquainted with the English saddle. At 17, he became a 2nd lieutenant of cavalry. Now he has his pick each year of 1,500 Mexican army horses and the 15 best of 15,000 army cavalrymen to put through his finishing school in horsemanship...
...male fashion board composed of men from Harvard, MIT, BU, and BC will pick "The costume I'd most like to have my date wear" at the Intercollegiate Fashion Show at Rindge Tech Auditorium on Friday evening...
...interest of history, Harvard's Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger* worked a variation on an old sport page diversion. He asked 55 authorities on American history to pick a kind of alltime, all-star list of U.S. Presidents. The results, listed last week in an article in LIFE, were a heartening commentary on the democratic electoral process. The U.S., in the opinion of the experts, had produced six great Presidents and only two downright failures...
...weakness, the men without arms, was there all the time. Princeton backs John Weber, Val Wagner, and George Sella consistently slipped out of the grasp of potential tacklers to pick up unearned yardage. Take away center-backerup Bill Hickey and it easily might have been a walk-away for the Tigers at the half-time...