Word: pint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Third Avenue elevated has been torn down. Along San Francisco's Mission Street, the "lumbermen"-beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno (29? a can, cut-rate) and gulped the pinkish alcohol after lining their stomachs with milk. Along the nation's Skid Rows...
...freedom, a place eventually to die in peaceful alcoholic stupor. Food and board are cheap: 50? a night for a flop; two fried eggs, coffee, toast, mush and potatoes for a quarter. Money is adequate: handouts in these generous times are fat; pharmaceutical companies buy blood for $5 a pint if the donor appears sober; relief checks and unemployment compensation are punctual. If all else fails, a day's dishwashing will net $8, and $8 is enough for a week's luxurious living in a civilization where showers are free, haircuts and shaves cost nothing at a barber...
Born. To Billy Pearson, 37, pint-sized jockey, TV quiz wizard (The $64,000 Question), passionate art collector, and Queta Pearson, 38: a daughter, their first child; in San Diego. Name: Maria Christina. Weight...
Victor Ibbotson jogged through a slowdown lap, gulped a pint of milk, said the race had gone according to plan. "I wanted a fast time because that's the only way to beat Delany, since he's a fast finisher." Gasped Delany: "A fabulous race. I shall dream about it for years...
Like It or Lump It. Last week, on NBC for Bristol-Myers (Ipana toothpaste), pint-sized (5 ft., 98 Ibs.) Kathryn Murray catapulted through a sketch as a theater usherette pantomiming a gypsy musical, and rode herd on a typical Party: a swirl of waltzers, a specialty spot by Dancers Rod Alexander and Bambi Lynn, an amateur ballroom-dancing contest between three couples aged five to eleven, and, in the closing moments, an appearance by tall, erect Arthur Murray, 62, in time to waltz his wife away...