Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first victims, it seemed, were Georgia's taxpayers, who have to pick up part of the tab for the A.R.F.'s scouting expedition. Technically it goes on the books as an official trip to look into state archives, but the loudest talkers in the party (five men, four wives) seemed more interested in real estate than records, and−if the truth were known−more interested in propaganda than real estate. Whether or not Fowler, Harris & Co. really expect to stir up the North, one thing is clear from their grins and chuckles as they talk about...
...Trust Yourself." When Spock wrote his first edition, a pseudoscientific strictness, introduced in the 1920s, was the rule-"Don't pick up the baby when he cries, feed him only at precise four-hour intervals." Spock stepped to the head of the pediatricians who were trying to encourage greater flexibility in baby care. They succeeded too well, he now feels: "Nowadays there seems to be more chance of a conscientious parent's getting into trouble with permissiveness [toward children] than with strictness." Keynote of Spock's latest advice to parents: "Trust yourself." Instinct, he says, prompts most...
...June 25, 1956). The stock plummeted last year to $1.75 a share because of the overexpansion, has since been suspended from trading on the American Stock Exchange; Bellanca subsidiaries folded or were sold, and Sid Albert himself lost about $8,000,000 in the crash. The man who will pick up the pieces: Bellanca Vice President Arthur K. Rothschild. 40, a former Internal Revenue Service agent, who joined Albert's family business in Akron in 1949, went over to Bellanca Corp. in 1955 as treasurer and director. Rothschild will now try to salvage a company that has been reduced...
Guard Interference. In Des Moines, the lucky winner of the Register's "You Pick 'Em" football-score contest, for which he received two free 50-yard-line tickets to the Iowa-Wisconsin football game, was Fort Madison (Iowa) Penitentiary Prisoner...
...victim, just before his death, told the police that the prisoner had approached him with an ice pick and stabbed him without justification. The defendant, however, said the victim had come at him first with a knife. It was only to defend, himself, the prisoner insited, that he picked up an ice pick from behind...