Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign the Communists made a lot of noise, said nothing that was much to the point. But the Conservatives, like their British opposite numbers, got down to political issues, charged that the welfare state had killed initiative. They cited cases: Norway's seal catchers lie idle rather than risk their lives for profits limited to 5%; berry pickers eat their blueberries rather than sell them and go up into higher income-tax brackets. Recently, with an eye on the polls, the Socialists dropped many of their austerity restrictions-"Like Salome," as one Conservative put it, "dropping her veils...
Novelist John P. Marquand lost a legal fight to buy out the interests of six cousins in a 46-acre ancestral estate (scene of his Wickford Point) in Newburyport, Mass. Marquand, who had argued that he could not live in peace with relatives setting up summer homes all over the place, was left with two houses and only 15 acres...
When the telephone rang in the six-room walkup apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Cohen of The Bronx, Mrs. Cohen, a 42-year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...
Last week Juilliard Graduate Grenell could point with both pride and profit to the third birthday of his Young People's Records, Inc. He had been cited by the Review of Recorded Music as "a major cultural influence." The membership in his Y.P.R. Club (one record a month for $15 a year) was above 100,000. Some of his subscribers: New York City Board...
When his apparatus is working right, Dr. Kreutzer claims that fish swim to their deaths as if bewitched. The Herr Doktor turns on the current; the fish point dutifully toward the electrode. When he makes the current sing its pied-piper song, the fish wiggle and waggle in time with the subtle pulses. Glassy-eyed and helpless, they swim toward the electrode which leads to the frying...