Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued a strictly intramural race until the mile and a half mark, when Hillier, who had been running far behind, moved up into ninth spot. Reider, Norris, McLean, Bill Thompson, Jim Schlaeppi, and Brown ran for the Crimson in that order...
Currier & Ives. For, as Howard McGrath says, "the farther we get into the sticks, the bigger crowds we get." There was nothing synthetic about the crowd in Sidney, Mont., a sugar-beet, beans, sheep-feeding spot. As many as 500 people, some in jeans and cowboy boots, were at the tiny airport, really whooping it up. In the small communities like Sidney-all the way to Oregon-the Kefauver campaign, for all its chartered plane, portable Mimeograph, and closed-circuit telephone speech, has developed a refreshingly American-primitive quality. The beautiful little Oregon hamlets with their graceful maples, vivid green...
...American Activities. He also voted for aid to Greece and Turkey in their fight against Communism, for the establishment of the Voice of America and for an unsuccessful bill to outlaw state poll taxes. "We thank God for Javits," exulted a Democratic leader, "because in a tight spot we can almost always count on him for another vote." But some Republican leaders grasped an essential point: a Representative is primarily an ambassador from his district. One time Javits came forward apologetically to explain a maverick vote to G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin. "Don't worry about it," said Martin. "Your...
...fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded Shepherd's free plug by offering to sponsor him on a weekly show. This week Shepherd was filling WOR's hottest spot: Sunday...
Intensity & Tragedy. To photograph Van Gogh's original oils, M-G-M sought out the canvases of collectors and museums all around the world, including some of the masterpieces in Moscow's rarely seen collection (see color). Film crews shot on-the-spot takes of the Van Gogh family house in Holland, re-created some of the scenes he painted, retraced his footsteps from the Borinage to Paris and the sun-baked square at Aries...