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...which many others would use merely to display fast finger-work. The length of the concerto left him no time for encores, though the audience recalled him repeatedly. I for one would rather have heard another selection by him than such encore offerings of Fiedler's as Plink, Plank, Plunk and The Irish Washerwoman...

Author: By Alexander Gelley, | Title: Boston Pops | 5/3/1952 | See Source »

...whip and the encouraging cries of Driver Bill Shearer: "Pick it up! Pick it up!" The dogs were near the end of the third and decisive race of the New England sled-dog championship at Jaffrey, N.H. last week. More important, they were close to chow time. And then, plunk in the middle of the snowy road, Driver Shearer saw a sight that chilled his spine: a cat, lazily sunning itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving the Dogs | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Americans at the Bonspiel | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Private investors are willing to plunk such huge sums into the Kaiser empire because, with the exception of K-F, it is making money fast. Fontana in the past five months alone has boosted ingot output by 16%, made more money in October than in any other month on record. Its earnings ($2,500,000 in the last quarter) are running 30% ahead of last year, v. a decline for the rest of the steel industry. Kaiser's aluminum company is also netting more after taxes than last year, despite a 60% increase in its tax bill. Kaiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: H.J. at Work | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Thomson, the potential winning run, was due to bat. With a gesture that Durocher would have disdained a year ago, he patted Thomson on the back. "Boy," said Leo in fervent, fatherly tones, "if you ever hit one, hit one now." Thomson did, high, wide & handsome. His home run, plunk into the left-field stands, won the game and the pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Durocher's Boys | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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