Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well along on a lavish campaign to buy up entertainers for its TV network, last week hired a man to tell it what to do with its high-priced talent. In signing a two-year "consultant" contract with pint-sized Showman Billy Rose, NBC Vice President William Brooks explained: "He seems to be quite a guy with ideas, and you've got to take ideas where you can find them...
...Senteney murder until they ran out of hunches. Then one night Undersheriff Ross's telephone rang. A scared and breathless Carpinteria liquor dealer had something to tell him: "It was a cop that did the murder. I know which one. It was Leonard Kirkes." Kirkes had bought a pint of whisky and two Cokes from him on the afternoon of the day Margaret disappeared, said the dealer...
...shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...
Less than 50 hours after the takeoff, Commander Sproul stood in the evacuation hospital at Hamhung watching a pint of the precious fluid flow into the veins of a wounded G.I. from Wisconsin. Each pint of Red Cross blood is marked with the city of its origin. Commander Sproul saw the boy grin when he noticed that his pint was marked "Madison...
Sapers estimated that about 1,300 men have signed up, including uncounted students from the Commuters Center. If only half of these are able to give, the College will still surpass its 541-pint record of last spring, the highest total over given by a single college...