Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch of the Hollywood-style, burning-eyed psychiatrist about Dr. Will as he greets friends or patients. He has a hearty Chamber-of-Commerce handshake (he belongs to the Topeka C. of C.), looks and acts like the safe kind of fellow a lonely traveler would pick to talk to on a Pullman club car. He lives with his attractive, intelligent wife (who teaches child care at Topeka's Washburn Municipal University) and three sons (Roy, 22, now at New York-Cornell University Medical College, Phil, 20, and Walter, 17) in an eleven-room, white clapboard Colonial house...
...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...
...When one was discussing a problem with him, he would repeatedly pick up the telephone, ask to be put through to some departmental chief, and ask him-'How many so and so have we got?' Then he would turn to the man who was arguing with him, quote the number, and say: 'There you are . . .' without asking if the numbers stated were available in reality...
...request was apparently sent out by Paris stations to northeast United States receivers, but WHRV was the first to pick it up. They passed the word to the Associated Press, which in turn spread it over its wire services...