Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squeeze Play. In Tampa, Fla., state highway Trooper K. E. Flint picked up a drunk in his patrol car, stopped and got out to collar a second, watched the first drive off in the police...
...bellyful of politics." More could be expected of the Mirror in its effort to recapture its youthful appeal. But the question that remained wide open was whether the Daily Mirror, in trying to get rid of its middle-age spread, had not exchanged it for a case of second childhood...
...financial problems. But it is at least a yellow caution light. Next on ICC's docket is the proposed merger between the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, whose combined loss in 1959's first half is more than $2,000,000. A clear track for this second major combination would revive industrywide merger talks (e.g., between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, and the proposed five-line New England tie-up of the Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and Rutland Railway...
...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...
...fickle wind, and a rejuvenated Dartmouth eleven combined to give the Crimson its second loss of the season Saturday, 9 to 0. Grinding out their victory under ragged clouds and torrential rains, the Indians upset all predictions as they produced the most potent ground offense the Crimson has seen this year, and thoroughly destroyed its hopes for the Ivy League title...