Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock. In 1943 Al made the Ellington band, but "I was in the band for two weeks before I knew it." He kept singing as a guest, night after night, until he finally complained that he had to earn a living. "Why," drawled Duke casually, "you can pick up your pay any time...
...Doesn't Pick . . ." Waiting at the inn were his campaign manager, Jim Finnegan (see box), and his old political sponsor, Chicago's Jacob Arvey. Their private discussion of the pros and cons of Adlai's open-race plan floated over an open transom...
FINNEGAN: Well, suppose he doesn't pick Kennedy. Then the Catholics are against him. If he doesn't pick Kefauver, then he loses all of his people. If he doesn't pick Humphrey, it doesn't make too much difference...
...napping and housewives are resting from their homework. "But," says McCleery, "people like honest, literate stuff at any time, not the soap-opera kind." Monday he gives them his "most realistic, experimental and artistic" shows (with Actors' Studio overtones). Tuesday is "problem-play-with-guts" day. "We pick them up with a comedy on Wednesday, if we can find one." Thursday he tries for an offbeat production, "with a gimmick twist," and Friday is a rehash of a Broadway play. Mostly, McCleery is in a Monday mood: "Here are my people. Look at them and listen to them. They...
Tennis Tournament participants who have fulfilled all the tourney's requirements may pick up their deposit money at Grays Hall...