Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paar (TIME, Oct. 28), the gentlemanly comic who rescued NBC's Tonight from the junk heap. Studio One produced The Deaf Heart (TIME. Nov. 4), a striking first script by a highly promising 29-year-old playwright named Mayo Simon, but nobody seems to know whether he can ride or shoot. Of the new situation comedies, only Leave It to Beaver (see below) has taken fire. Among minor new wrinkles: ABC's All-Star Golf (TIME, Dec. 23), a tournament played just for viewers; a vogue for old horror movies; the bold, brash (though often anticlimactic) interviews...
...whilee, Burgess, 41 appeared to be making the most of his opportunity. A seven-day-week worker, he rode the T.W.A. routes restlessly in search of flaws in passenger service, routed out T.W.A. executives to make them ride the routes on their days off, and trimmed the payroll. T.W.A.'s financial postion improved markedly. By the end of September, T.W.A. managed to show a nine-month 1957 profit of $2,400,000 v. $2,300,000 loss...
Argued Busia in level tones: "What the original British bill says is this: 'We shall seek suspension of laws to ride roughshod over fundamental rights only if the entire nation is imperiled by war.' What the Ghana government is now saying is, 'No, no, we want you to give us powers to exercise absolute authority, even if only a local area is affected...
...pair of round-trip tickets to Detroit, and led Don onto a plane. By the time they landed in Detroit, both travelers were convinced that Edelman had something on the ball. Don enjoyed the trip so thoroughly that he even entertained the notion of continuing the joy ride all the way to Los Angeles. Hypnotist Edelman took a squint at the future and had no doubts at all about what he saw. Said he: "The autoconditioning I taught Don will be conducive to better pitching and improved reactions to the various circumstances that arise on the ball field...
...minor-league ball is now eligible for drafting (i.e., hiring) by any major-league club. Under the old rule, major-league owners of farm clubs could leave employees in the minors subject only to their own call. Promising rookies hired as "bonus babies" will no longer have to ride major-league benches but can be sent to the minors for seasoning...