Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publisher Annenberg, whose booming Triangle Publications will add the Daily News to its rich grab-bag collection (TV Guide, Seventeen, Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph), saw a promising opportunity for a light-feature and top-of-the-news sheet that will not try to match the intensive local coverage of his Inquirer or the prosperous Bulletin. Under its new publisher, the Daily News will go from a semi-morning paper (six editions, from midnight to noon) to one-shift afternoon publication (two editions, at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.), in competition with the Bulletin. It will drop its pallid...
...instruments as did 20 years ago; roughly 8,000,000 children are playing musical instruments in schools. "It's accepted by the kids now," says one music educator. "In my day it was considered sissy." The industry reckons that it will gross $470 million from musical instruments and sheet music in 1957. Sales of electronic organs alone have increased an estimated 600% in the past five years (says Hammond President Stanley Sorensen: "If you can get it in the house, you can sell...
...scene. The injured and dying were given first aid in kitchens and parlors as families worked together through the night, trying to rescue victims, many of whom were irrevocably trapped in the twisted steel. In a public bath, rows of bodies were laid out under blankets; under one white sheet stood a bucket containing a head and three legs. Hour after hour, the casualties were totted up in hospitals and mortuaries. The final casualty list: 88 dead, no seriously injured in the third worst rail crash in Britain's history...
Every detail in the book is keyed to the general tones and the death is meaningful to all it touches. The wife of a stranger who finds Jay's body replaces with a sheet the horse blanket her husband had put over the dead man. This is the only way she can participate in the tragedy; it's all a stranger can do to show her sorrow and it's enough...
...court, one of his wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel's message...