Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert tour. Pianist Biret not only performed in public, she also had some of her own compositions played on the French national radio. Encouraged by these records, the Turkish government decided to expand its program, this year put 14 youngsters through a rigid set of tests and interviews to pick those qualified to go abroad. Last week three more Turkish prodigies were in Paris waiting 'o begin their formal studies. The three: ¶ Verda Erman, 12, daughter of a Wagons-Lits Cook inspector in Istanbul. Verda began playing the piano at six, showed so much promise that her parents...
Perhaps the best performance was turned in by Director Marker as Captain Queeg, although supported by some purple passages in the script. However, the show does begin to pick up in the second act, and perhaps could improve in the remainder...
...hell allowed you to come here to Scranton to build?" Replied Pozusek: "Mister, it so happens I am American-born, and I am allowed to earn a living in any part of this country as long as I earn it legally." Said the union official: "You will just pick up your tools and get the hell back to Wilkes-Barre, where you belong." Snapped Pozusek: "Look, mister, I am not looking for trouble. I don't pretend to be smart or tough, and I am only going to tell you one thing-that I am a nervous type...
...death certificate for tyrants" is the phrase that President Pedro Aramburu uses to describe the constitutional changes -largely limitations on executive power-that he favors. Last week General Aramburu signed a decree summoning Argentines to an election July 28 to pick delegates for the Constituent Assembly that will write the changes...
...panel) for a fixed per-capita fee, paid by the state, of $2.38 a year regardless of how much service the patients need. Since their one pay raise in 1951, the G.P.s have averaged only $6,221 a year from N.H.S. (for cruelly long hours, including night calls); most pick up a few hundred more in special fees or by working for industry. Last summer the powerful British Medical Association and its trade-union shadow, the British Medical Guild, decided that something must be done. They drummed up doctors' indignation, presented the government with a demand...