Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come for the Ride. Finnegan's own Pennsylvania was the first hot spot. The day after Truman's flare-up, President David McDonald of the United Steelworkers went on network television and loudly announced that he too was for Harriman. McDonald's steelworkers are mighty in Pennsylvania, and some Philadelphia delegates were raring to go with him. The Pennsylvania delegation caucused, and Dave McDonald made a fiery pitch for Harriman support. But Finnegan's protege, Governor George Leader, laid out the political facts of life. Snapped he: if any delegate hoped to do any future business...
...three major networks called out their stables of old, reliable stars, and laid on a couple of new ones. CBS's veteran Walter Cronkite. working his familiar anchor spot, gave the most informed, alert and consistently lucid commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives...
...lots of fun. They wanted us to sing la-la-la-oop as we jumped.") A fortnight ago Dotty placed first in the Women's Amateur Athletic championships, and won a distinction no other athlete ever achieved: for the fourth time in 20 years she earned a spot on an Olympic team. "I'm always amazed at my jumping," says she. "When I've gone over the bar, I say, 'Good God! Was that me?' When I stop being amazed, I guess I'll quit...
...record gives an amusingly phony account of an invasion from space ("We switch you now to our on-the-spot reporter downtown . . . Take it away, John Cameron Cameron"), with rock-'n'-roll overtones. In a dizzy pastiche, almost every sentence of the invasion "broadcast" is matched by an answering snatch of some popular rock-'n'-roll record. The result is a kind of contrapuntal dialogue. "The flying saucers," says a breathless announcer, "are real!" "Real." echoes a familiar rock-'n'-roll record a split second later, "Real, when I feel what my heart...
...been 810 cases, of which 501 were paralytic. There have been 21 deaths. Even if the outbreak is brought under control in another fortnight, as doctors hope it will be, it still makes this the second worst polio year in Chicago's history (the worst: 1952). Only bright spot: not a single case of paralytic polio has cropped up among people who have received the full, three-shot Salk immunization...