Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Norman ("Red") Strader. 53, pint-sized (less than 150 Ibs.) fullback in the mid-20's at California's St. Mary's College, coach at St. Mary's (1932-41), later for the New York Yankees (1948-50) and the San Francisco 4gers (1955); of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif...
...earnestness with which the bottle-bald brothers lampoon the standard TV sales talk, e.g., with slogans such as "Throat-wise, it's delicious.'' Plotwise, the fictional Piel boys, whose lines are spoken by radio's Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding), are a study in opposites. Pint-sized Bert is a gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning Harry that they listen carefully to every word he has to say. A New Jersey woman even...
From 500 cc. of blood (about a pint) they were able to extract just a tenth of a teaspoonful of this far-from-pure substance, still unidentified (though they believe it to be a protein enzyme). They injected it into monkeys. The animals "developed a full-blown catatonic picture with waxy flexibility, looked dazed and out of contact, and would stare into distant corners of the room gesticulating and grimacing inappropriately so as to suggest that they might be hallucinating." The monkeys' brain waves became almost identical with those of severely schizophrenic patients. Was this the key to schizophrenia...
Pirelli put in cafeterias to give all workers at least one big meal every day at a nominal fee of eight lire (about 1?) per meal. Sample menu: minestrone, roast veal, vegetables, cheese, dessert, half a pint of wine. Workers can go to free vacation camps on the Italian Riviera; their children can go to the Italian Alps in summertime, while retired oldsters can spend their waning years in a free home at Iduno, near Lake Como. As individual productivity has gone up to double prewar records, Pirelli has rewarded his workers with repeated pay boosts, pushed their real wages...
...husband for his widowed sister (Rosemary De Camp), who does not particularly want one. The show is nearly as slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines in his girl Friday (Anne B. Davis), a half-pint comedienne known as Schultzie. Sponsor Winston Cigarettes has paid the bills for the past two years and has an option for three and a half years more. Says Bob: "A lot of other sponsors want to get in too. Show business is like the stock market-when...