Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office admitted to his whereabouts). Once they found a man named Goldfine, but it was Bernard's son Horace. He did not know where his father was, either. That evening TIME-LIFE Correspondent Ken Froslid spotted Mrs. Goldfine in the Boston garment district, trailed her on a hurried ride to Pieroni's Restaurant in Park Square. Froslid notified Gart, who telephoned Jarvis, who hotfooted it to the restaurant. Meanwhile, Gart phoned Horace. "I told him," says Gart, "that we knew where his father was, and I gave him Pieroni's phone number and asked him to call...
Pennywhistle lyrics have also become the urban African's version of the bush telegraph, warning against fickle women, street fights and raids by the "head-bashers" (white cops). Some titles convey political messages. One called Azi Khwelwa ("We don't ride" in Zulu) was banned by South African officials after they learned that natives took it as an incitement to boycott Jim Crow buses...
Around the nation, editors are trying to ride out the recession without major cutbacks by intensive downhold drives that are paring extras to the bone. The Denver Post dropped a Sunday pictorial section, got the cooperation of unions in cutting expenses and overtime, is now putting out the paper with 3,000 fewer man-hours per week than before the recession. In San Antonio the Express Publishing Co., owner of the morning Express and afternoon News, combined the two Saturday papers into one fat morning Express-News. Few newspapers are hiring; few are even replacing newsmen who quit...
...they took off. The 33 qualifiers for the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race last week scrambled out to begin the "Big Spin in the Brickyard" like Memorial Day road hogs trying to beat their neighbors to the beach. Even the pre-race parade, which called for the competitors to ride in neat ranks three abreast behind a pace car, immediately degenerated into a fight for the pole. It took three turns around the 2½mile track before the fast-moving field straightened out enough to satisfy the official starter. Then the green flag fell and 33 big feet pushed...
...Angeles' Garrett Corp. shows no loss of efficiency even though it laid off 1,200 of its 11,000-man work force, has also lopped a full 10% to 20% from executive salaries and cut out many a frill. "A lot of the boys don't like riding air coach," says Executive Vice President K. B. Wolfe (a retired Air Force lieut. general and onetime deputy chief of staff for Air Matériel), "but when I ride air coach, by God, they ride...