Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel Corbin: "Because it turns out all right in the end. We always try to pick a play that is not disruptive of family life...
...beef up apostolic firepower and increase its range. CELAM will make heavy use of radio and TV. Priests hope to supply remote communities with more radios to pick up religious programs broadcast by church transmitters. To finance the new drive, the church hopes to raise some money in Latin America, more...
...what of seasons to come? Let me lose the opener or a couple of other games next fall, and then watch how I'm blasted." An All-America end for three years running in his undergraduate days, Bennie is a gentle, unorthodox type who thinks a boy should pick a school and then play football, and this is contrary to recruiting doctrine these days in football's big time. This year Michigan managed only two victories (both by a single point) in its first seven games. Beset by injuries to key players and hanged in effigy by students...
Produced by Graham's Private Enterprise, Inc. and sponsored by Ford Motor Co., the show will hear from three contestants a week for three weeks, pick three of them for a fourth program where the winner will get backing up to $25,000. As with small businessmen it has backed abroad, Graham's P.E.I, will split profits fifty-fifty with the winners until they are ready to buy out its share. Graham has already received nearly 300 applications touting everything from a futuristic garage to a fancy vanity tray, is having applicants screened by Wichita's Fourth...
Telegraphed Gifts. More than 2,000 U.S. drugstores have signed up with Gifts By Wire, Inc. of Delray Beach, Fla. in a new national gift-sending service. Customers pick gifts from a catalogue at retail prices (range $3 to $28.50), pay a telegraph fee and 50? service charge to have the gift wrapped and delivered to the recipient in another city...