Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. that Maine-born Mildred Gillars. 58, bohemian-inclined oddball who achieved notoriety as Axis Sally, apparently wants to remain locked up. Mildred used to amuse Allied troops in World War II with English-language propaganda broadcasts from Germany. Typical pitch for defection: "Throw down those little old guns and toddle off home. There's no getting the Germans down!" Mildred, if she lives so long, will be sprung in 1979, not counting the ten years off that she could get for good behavior. But it was learned last week...
...engineers think that it is certainly possible. For a sound-making device, they intend to use a Levavasseur whistle that has no moving parts and can be made of heat-resistant material. The rocketeers figure that the best frequency to use is 10,000 cycles, about the pitch of a very high violin note. Yet the volume of sound must be well above the loudest fiddle; an ear-shattering 170 decibels, which is 100 times the sound pressure of a supersonic boom from a jet aircraft...
Cured: "Manager's Sickness." The new Bremen is slower (six days from Southampton at 23 knots) and smaller (32,336 tons) than the old, which carried twice as many passengers (2,231 v. 1,122). But Lloyd plans to pitch its appeal to tourists who want leisurely travel, non-dress-up luxury and fine, hearty food. Probably his best year-round clientele, figures Director Bertram, will be ocean-hopping businessmen who need a respite from the jet pace (some German firms now require executives flying the ocean to return by ship...
...there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern paper company, asked if he should sell and invest in M.I.T. shares. Robinson & Co. cautiously made no sales pitch, but advised the man to sell his stock. Next day the stock plunged five points...
...Falstaff thinks, titular wives only) Nancy Marchand and Nancy Wickwire are properly merry. The latter (Mistress Ford) especially does some fresh things with her lines. For instance, when she is leading Falstaff on and tells him, "I fear you love Mistress Page," she raises the last name in pitch and volume as though in summons, whereupon Mistress Page pops into view by mistake. And Sada Thompson adds much to the humor of Mistress Quickly through a command of subtle inflections and timing...