Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S.R., which like California delights in its own superlatives, is the proud possessor of "the coldest spot on earth." Last week Moscow radio announced that at a place in Siberia (Lat. 63 north, Long. 143 east) near the Sea of Okhotsk the thermometer recently dived to -70.2° Centigrade...
David Charnay was sitting in a midtown Manhattan spot last week, tending to his business (interviewing a Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave...
Rehabilitate or Electrocute. A sample committee operation was that on Louisville's county jail. The jailer came to the first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public...
...only bright spot for Coach Gordon Smith's luckless Tech squad was Jim Leonard, who captured the Engineer's lone first place, in the fifty yard dash...
...Como, and hat-heavy Carmen Miranda stumble through ninety confused minutes of political campaigns and corny musical numbers untempered by the inclusion of Harry James' fine trumpet and the funny gags of Phil Silvers. "If I'm Lucky" is a sleepy picture that certainly does not deserve its feature spot on the program...