Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at Work. In Greensboro, N.C., while the doctors fretted back in Decatur, Margaret met Connecticut Dog Trainer Ted Young Jr., who, for such a good customer, had obligingly responded to a long-distance call and had driven some 630 miles south to pick up her dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...
...pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along one wall, strategically placed a third behind the committee to pick up documents exchanged across the table and Senator McClellan's fancy doodlings. TV-savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save...
When he rose out of the iron mine at 1,200 ft. per minute, Dr. Simons was as safe as science could make him. His heart beat and respiration rate were radioed directly from his chest to a monitoring physiologist. Film strapped to his forearms and chest would pick up the tracks of any cosmic particles that might crash through to his skin. A C-47 with a paramedic aboard started to track his flight. Down below, radar blips traced his path and a meteorologist turned a weather eye on the heavens. To help science, Simons carried along a good...
...Chicago White Sox Coach Ray Berres was disgusted: Starter Bob Keegan refused to relax between pitches, even during pregame warmup. Coach Berres was afraid visiting Washington Senator batters would pick up the rapid rhythm and tee off on the aging (36) righthander. But Keegan was afraid that if he slowed down he would lose his balance and fall off the mound on his follow through. So they worked out a compromise: Keegan concentrated on slowing down just a little. It was enough. He beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first...
...DiMaggio's famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick up a sigh at 60 paces...