Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate relief is in sight for students who already have no booklet. Applications for tickets to the October 5 football game against Cornell must be filed before 5 p.m. today in the class boxes outside the H. A. A. building on 60 Boylston Street, and only properly completed pick application in official envelopes will be accepted...
...from spreading. The scientists are none too hopeful. Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes it a stubborn enemy...
From Crooner Cole came praise for NBC for "supporting the show [at a cost of $20,000 a week] and picking out good sponsors-like Rheingold Beer." As other sponsors queued up, Cole curled his prune-whip voice around a hot salvo for Madison Avenue: "That street still runs TV, and there is reluctance on its part to sell my show. Madison Avenue is in the North, and that's where the resistance is. Sometimes the South is used as a football to take some of the stain off us in the North. I have been well received...
Newspaperman's Newspaper. Last week, plainly in need of stronger medicine, the Herald Tribune was about to get the biggest pick-me-up in its 116-year history (all accompanied by the adjectival drumbeating of Tex McCrary Inc., the radio-TV performer's public-relations outfit). Though it has owned the paper outright ever since Brownie's grandfather Whitelaw took over the old Tribune in 1872, the Reid family decided to reorganize its closed corporation as a Delaware stock company in order to bring in outside capital, lined up several potential investors. To London last week went...
...manager, George Gainford. "Practicing bobbing and weaving. We know what to do about that. Look at his face. He's been hit plenty, so why can't Robby hit him? When the fight's over, why I'll assist Mr. Basilio's manager to pick his man up off the canvas...