Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaw & Mother. With the crashing madness of a Marx Brothers scene run in reverse, the Beatniks read their poetry, made their pitch for money for a new Beatnik magazine. The Big Table, and then stalked out. After a late night on the town, they made a mystical pilgrimage to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo (which has no wart hog and no laughing bowl), turned up next evening at the Sherman Hotel, read more poetry for a curious crowd of 700 (who paid $1 and up), this session sponsored by Chicago's Shaw Society...
...Chicago Daily News, and Marshall Haseltine, urbane expatriate who lived in Europe. Weller got a leave of absence to work with Cushing. He drove into Squaw Valley over the rutted dirt road from State Highway 89, took one horrified look and decided on the spot that the pitch had to be a return to Olympic ideals of togetherness and simplicity, in contrast to Europe's ornate resorts...
...companies for contracts during World War II. developed a specialized technique for welding Monel. a nickel alloy needed in atomic reactors, after several corporate giants had given up. After the war. Hasselhorn sent teams hustling around the U.S. to recruit brainpower, signed up several employees himself after delivering his pitch over the ham radio he operates as a hobby...
...been cut out of fairly stiff cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute's pimp, but the nimbus of light still rings his head. The highly orthodox moral: the unmerited gift of divine grace...
Fallout Detector. A radiation detector that plugs into any standard radio or TV set was demonstrated by Tracerlab, Inc. When fallout occurs, the device sounds a wailing alarm through the speaker, drops in pitch as radiation grows less dangerous. Price: about...