Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of saying "Good morning," Japanese businessmen in Osaka traditionally say "Moh-kari-makka?" (Are you making any money?) Only a year ago, the answer was a doleful no. The cutback in U.S. procurement following the Korean peace had demoralized dollar-happy industrialists and spotted Japanese headlines with the word...
In the best Dragnet fashion. Detectives Charles Fitzgerald and Herbert Wilk got her picture identified, discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while...
last summer. Douglas' glowing introduction of the record (Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor, RCA Victor): "Here indeed is a great pianist, probably the world's greatest. His piano always sings at his touch. Mr. Gilels comes here not as a Soviet representative but as...
Such success at the track sharpened Butcher Auteroche's appetite for live horseflesh. Last month he spotted another likely winner: a neurotic chestnut trotter named Fabliau, given to temper tantrums and the quaint habit of kicking his racing rig to pieces. After paying 80,000 francs for the horse...
Gin & Jitters. In Milwaukee, arrested on a drunk and disorderly conduct charge after a college football game, Robert Kes-selhon, 24, admitted drinking 15 martinis, theorized that the reason he had been found asleep on a neighbor's davenport was that "somebody must have put something in my drinks...