Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district and, methodically seeking out each proprietor, worked his way halfway across town...
...funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
...remarkable pitching roster, the Old Perfesser can pick such aces as Southpaws Whitey Ford and Bobby Shantz and his reformed playboy. Righthander Don ("Perfect Game") Larsen; if they tire, as a reliever he has Fireballer Ryne Duren. who has saved nine ball games, struck out 40 of the 80 men he has faced. And every four days, he can send out the burly (6 ft. 2 in., 218 lbs.) insurance agent who is currently the best pitcher in the majors: Robert Lee Turley...
...give a cross section of this beneficent presence, from, the most naive form to the most sophisticated, the U.S. fair staff appointed experts to pick 181 paintings, sculptures and craft objects, and divided them into four different exhibits. Contemporary sculpture was placed in the pavilion's interior pool; displays featuring 41 examples of native Indian art, a wide selection of American folk art, and, most controversial of all, 44 paintings by 17 artists under 45 now working from Manhattan to San Francisco, were spread out elsewhere in the building...
...only upsurge of new shows seems to be in participation programs. ABC is shouting Anybody Can Play, NBC challenges quizlings to Pick a Winner or try The Big Game, CBS dares viewers either to Sing Along or Keep Talking! Away from the panels and the quiz masters, there is little in prospect to excite viewers. ABC offers Bobby Troup's Stars of Jazz as relief from the heat. CBS will try its courtroom show, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME. May 19) as an hour evening program, in addition to Verdict's weekday afternoon half-hour...