Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this week, with his Kefauver assignment completed, Connery stopped in Chicago long enough to greet his wife and two small children, pick up some clean shirts and head...
...will spend some $2,200,000 for air time, 80% of it on TV. ¶ Democrats have scheduled eight half-hour shows and some 90 five-minute spots, most of which will be sandwiched between regular shows on the cheaper daytime slots. By intensive barnstorming, Democrats also hope to pick up plenty of free newscast coverage. The G.O.P. will run 15 half-hour shows, 35 five-minute shorts (all at night), has bought a solid hour on all three networks on election eve for a final go-out-and-vote speech...
...parents when he was a youngster. He went to work as a "grease pig," leading the slow-moving donkeys hauling their loads of coal. Any job under the sun would have been better, and young Johnny made a long reach for light and air. At 15, he began to pick up small change riding "Roman" style at the "bull rings" around Calgary. Steering two mounts from a standing position, one foot on the back of each, Johnny demonstrated his innate skill at horsemanship...
...will hand-pick a new nominee...
...played with the Benny Goodman Sextet, eventually formed his own quartet. Elliott has no fewer than seven iT.P.s on the market, with three more coming soon, for he plays with an ingratiating style that appeals to jazz lovers without frightening record executives. Does he think it is time to pick up another instrument? "Well," says Elliott wistfully, "I always wanted to play tenor sax or flute. But"-and his determination seems to harden-"I play enough...