Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of story to tear hearts-and sell newspapers. In Hempstead, L.I. last week, Harold Sheridan's dog was missing. After hunting in vain for his own pet at the pound, Sheridan offered to give another six-month-old puppy a home. Dogcatcher Jacob Roeper refused; he was going to put the dog to death by gas, and said that the law backed him up. Reader Sheridan asked for help from Long Island's lively tabloid Newsday, published by Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News (TIME...
City Editor Jack Altshul told Sheridan that all he needed to claim a dog was a license and a redemption certificate. Thus armed, Sheridan hurried back to the pound. Said Roeper: Sorry, the dog is dead. Altshul, who knows that dogs run second only to babies as human-interest stories, sent a reporter down to the pound. What he turned up shocked Newsday's 116,000 readers. Dogcatcher Roeper, Newsday reported, gets paid $2 for each dog he catches and $2 more for each one he kills. With this piecework incentive, Roeper had killed 4,158 dogs in Hempstead...
...hired a dozen plump ladies carrying baskets inscribed "We shop at Lipton's" to march up & down outside, drove a hefty, traffic-blocking pair of hogs marked "Lipton's Orphans" through the streets of Glasgow, scattered broadsides from a balloon, even issued authentic-looking pound notes as advertisements-and got in some minor trouble with the law. As Author Alec Waugh* delicately puts it in his readable but repetitious biography: "Lipton had no objection to being a public nuisance where his own interests were concerned...
...pound event was the turning point. Charlie Keith was ahead on points when Lon Scalzo Army won on a quick rolling fall. It was an unusually fast call which might have made the difference between a Crimson Victory and defeat...
...pound class--Nicholson (A) pinned Kozol with a half nelson at 7:42, 128--Cragin (A) decisioned Abboud, 10-4; 136-Smith (H) decisioned Fern, 6-3; 145-Sawyer (H) decisioned Myers, 5-4; 155-Lange (A) decisioned Connors, 7-4; 165-Scalzo (A) pinned Keith with a cradle at 2:14; 175--Clafin (H) decisioned Weyand, 6-5, unlimited--W. Davis (H) decisioned B. Davis...