Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...packed, floodlit Bundestag hall, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer delivered a keynote speech listing Germany's major concerns: the P.W.s held by Russia, the Oder-Neisse boundary deal which ceded a large part of Eastern Germany to Poland, the dismantling of German plants. He also touched on the sore spot of denazification. "The truly guilty," he said, "must be severely punished, but beyond that we can no longer have two classes of people in Germany-the politically reliable and the politically unreliable...
...lowly Chicago Cubs struck another blow at the Cardinals' pennant hopes yesterday by edging the Redbirds, 6 to 5. Ace St. Louis outfielder Stan Musial committed one of his rare errors in a bad spot, for the two runs that scored subsequently proved to be the winning margin. Bob Rush was the winning pitcher for Chicago though he was aided by four shutout innings of relief pitching by Walter Dubiel...
...been sitting in a living room chair in front of a window, until he decided to get up and go to the kitchen. No sooner had he reached it than one shot came through the window and hit the wall behind the chair in a direct line with the spot that Foley's head had previously occupied...
Often she has had the closing program spot, which might mean waiting until the end of an extra-inning night baseball game. Once, ready and made-up at 8 p.m., she went on the air sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise...
This week the Bargy formula began to pay off. She got a sponsor (the Duffy -Mott Co.), at least one settled time spot (Tues., 10:15 p.m.), and was hailed by Columnist Walter Winchell, who gushed that she was "new and refreshing . . . soft, sweet and dreamy." Mildly surprised by success, Jeanne Bargy said: "I'd been thinking of adding guest stars and things like that to my show. Now, I guess I'll keep...