Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller (3,000) hall, and Promoter Gordon faced a bleak week. Worse, Brisbane's newspaper Truth quoted Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Arthur Fadden who was "very perturbed" about the influx of profit-hungry American entertainers. "They are like butcherbirds," * said he. "They fly in, pick up the worm and fly away again." Nevertheless, Aussie audiences went on cheering, and when he flies home this week, Singer Sinatra will carry back a reported...
Back in the Gold Coast days, when tutoring schools around the Square offered packaged educations and guaranteed Harvard diplomas, College students could spend much of their time in New York or Bermuda and still pick up their "gentleman...
...unmusical Senator Joseph McCarthy, pointedly omitted from the guest lists of two White House dinners last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), happily dawdled with a new toy: a fancy electric organ which his handsome wife Jean gave him for Christmas. After a few lessons, he had already learned how to pick out one tune. The song: Old Black...
...institutions that have 20 or more graduates at G.M., and to a number of public institutions with a "substantial" number of alumni, the company will provide 250 four-year scholarships each year, will add a $500 to $800 grant to each private college involved. The colleges and universities will pick their own students, but no one campus will get more than five scholarships in any one year...
Social Awareness. In Kansas City, Mo., after being slugged on the street by two pipe-swinging strangers, having the fuel tank of his car filled with sugar and the car's tires punctured with an ice pick, Grocery Clerk Homer P. Hatfield solemnly told police he thought that someone must have...