Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accident. He began writing a series of newspaper ads for his Diamond Horseshoe: "Miscellaneous notions on Life, Art, Reforestation, and Sex among the Aborigines." The ads were written with such sprightly zeal that all Broadway was soon babbling about them. The newspaper PM began printing them as a regular column. That was all the encouragement Billy needed. He raced off in all directions asking editors if they wouldn't like to run his column free for the first six months...
Today's CRIMSON will be the last of the regular spring term publication schedule. A special Alumni issue will appear on Class Day, next Wednesday, while a red hot Extra is expected to hit the streets during the Commencement morning ceremonies...
...present generation of pool players. What could be done about such customers as the New Jersey pool-hall proprietor who promotes lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State...
William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 77, a limber-tongued front-page regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking...
Though disguised as a civilian program, UMT will serve to keep the military caste in power. The program is to be under the auspices of the Regular Army, and the training given in how not to think is the antithesis of the individuality of the democratic system. For military reasons too, conscription is unfeasible. The advantages of having a great, unwieldy pool of men half-trained in obsolete weapons are non-existent, especially in face of all the new implications of atomic warfare...