Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...covers. Some exceptions: Cartographer Bob Chapin's maps of Paris (Sept. 4, 1944) and Jerusalem (Aug. 26, 1946), Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written...
Many dealers expected things to pick up (though not to last fall's peak) with spring weather. National Used Car Mar ket Reports, Inc. said: "The light is amber, not red." But if overall business slumps in the latter half of this year, it warned, the light will certainly turn...
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that K-F's 4,000 dealers had about 20,000 cars in their showrooms, compared to fewer than 8,000 last November. They were not oversupplied if sales, which have been lagging, should pick up in the spring. But some dealers were already selling cars for less than list prices...
Yard voters east 753 ballots yesterday to pick the ten-man Freshman Jubilee Committee, as Roy M. Goodman '51 amassed a total of 332 tallies to lead a 30-candidate field...
There are two schools of thought on the origin of the term snowbunny. The first, led by ski professional Torger Bartle, maintains that snowbunnies are so named because they pick up enough snow on their costumes during a descent to be camouflaged almost as perfectly as the winterplumed rabbit...