Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kick out of some of these sports writers. A few weeks ago I was reading the sports page and this is what the headlines said: "Experts pick so-and-so to win." Then they had a picture of the experts--the sports writers--who told themselves they were experts...
...than likely to induce a nervous breakdown. TIME'S chief book critic, Max Gissen, and his four colleagues try to avoid that fate, but they do more than enough reading to know America's literary output as well as a broker knows the market charts. For their pick of 1957, see BOOKS, The Year's Best...
This year, as usual, the sideline critics who pick All-America football teams looked back over the season, squabbled over local favorites, but in the end agreed on enough names to field an unusually fine team. The consensus, notable for its light list of West and East Coasters...
...resignation damaged the work of the commission, but a new appointee of similar stature can still pick up the pieces. It is unfortunate that the situation ever had to arise, but presented with a fait accompli, the Administration must act, and act with speed...
...snowing, Buck remembers, and the train they rode from Lenox, 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was lit by coal-oil lamps.) Answering a questionnaire, Mrs. Buckner conceded that Mayo was truthful, tenderhearted, had a good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because "He rolls his eyes and makes a peculiar noise . . . The child is not foolish but is lacking in many ways. I do not wish to send...