Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson baseball team will try to pick up its first E.I.B.L. win this afternoon as it takes on the Brandeis nine at Waltham. Jack Kirby, a G.B.L. All Star last year will start on the mound for the Judges, while Crimson coach Norm Shepard goes with fast-baller Ed Wadsworth...
...Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny...
...operator himself was superbly true to life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show put in his mouth: "Hey, I gotta pick up all that baby stuff from the Maxwells'." In real life, temporarily blinded though he was, he had jumped from the plane and run until someone tackled...
...Wishie Weasel Head got mixed up with an old lady at Heart Butte," read the item in the weekly Browning, Mont. Glacier Reporter (circ. 1,200). "So the old woman pick up a jug of Gallo and whack him over the head and was soaked in wine. He was hospitalized for several days so don't bother an old lady...
Although the Council may feel stung by this exhibition of apathy, its good works will not remain unnoticed long; sales are bound to pick up soon. In fact, the energetic lawmakers ought to look around not for new opportunities to serve the College. There's a six-day bike race coming to town, and tag-team wrestling at the Arena each week, and maybe a flea circus. The Council has only begun to serve...