Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threading the black Defense Department limousine through Washington's morning traffic, Chauffeur Clarence Mason wheeled smartly up to the Porter Street house in the capital's Cleveland Park section. Mason's assignment: to pick up Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles and deliver him to a 7:45 a.m. television date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet...
...Sylvanias, Peabodys, Oscars, Grammies, Christophers, Tonys and countless other awards had already been announced. What could the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences do to make its own Emmy awards add up to something more than another collection of meaningless statuary? The obvious answer was to pick a few deserving winners carefully and present the prizes on a tasteful show. But this time television avoided the obvious. In a season dominated by dull shows, the three-city, 42-Emmy marathon packaged for the academy by NBC last week managed to stand out as one of the worst...
Asked why he thought society was "sick," Feiffer replied, "I pick up a newspaper in the morning, and it's the only logical conclusion I can come to." (He is particularly disturbed about nuclear tests, radiation fallout, etc. as is evidenced by his section in Passionella entitled "Bomb.") "All I'm doing is counting heads...
Summers, Percy clerked at Bell & Howell for $16 to $20 a week, caught the eye of benevolently despotic President Joseph McNabb, Percy's onetime Sunday school teacher. McNabb offered Percy his pick of jobs upon graduation, and Percy chose to take charge of B. & H.'s tiny defense production. Within months the U.S. went to war, and Percy at 21 was bossing B. & H.'s biggest endeavor. McNabb, who made all the company's decisions, placed Percy on the board at 23. After 35 months in the Navy (up from apprentice seaman to lieutenant), Percy became...
After an explosive opening, the varsity baseball team settled down to outscore the Cornell nine 8 to 6 Saturday at Soldiers Field to pick up its third E.I.B.L. victory...