Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record; but the story, too intriguing and important to keep quiet, was printed two days later, first by Des Moines Register and Tribune Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff...
...children. Though Kame-jiro Senaga, leader of the pro-Communist Minren Party, tried to make political capital out of the accident, no one else did, and most Okinawans seemed genuinely impressed by U.S. rescue efforts following the crash. And any critics would have to ignore a startling safety record: the crash caused the first Okinawan fatalities in 14 years of U.S. occupation...
Stengel lays it to negligence. Despite their record, the Yankees are a well-balanced ball club, the same team, in fact, that beat the Braves in three straight games to salvage the 1958 World Series. Nor has the competition improved that impressively. The league-leading Cleveland Indians rely heavily on players who could not stay with the present Yankees. The Chicago White Sox have little power; the Detroit Tigers have erratic pitching. Growls Stengel: "We oughta be goddamned ashamed we ain't trying enough...
...more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning up not only in nightclubs but regularly shudder onto the TV screen, and are even invading the record field; Inside Shelley Berman has been near the top of the LP bestseller list for two months, a remarkable feat for a nonmusical disk. And sociologists, both professional and amateur, see in the sick comedians a symptom of the 20th century's own sickness. Says...
...Mate." In Clackmannanshire on the Firth of Forth, Editor John Ogilvie sat up all night setting type himself, brought out his weekly Alloa Circular and Hillfoots Record on time. Girl typists helped keep the Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided...