Word: squeak
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...Berkshire in a barnyard, and he imagines them as readily in staid old New England as he does in the meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start with Tobacco Road. But the halt was only temporary...
...softball game, Leverett overcame an early 8 to 1 Kirkland lead to win, 10 to 9, in the last frame. Squeak Leary, Lowell Sachnoff, and Dick Meyers each got three hits for the winners...
...Gritting her teeth as if in pain, she bent her lower body, making a sort of hammock out of her tail membrane. Soon tiny white feet appeared; then a small white body and crumpled white wings. The young bat dropped into the hammock. When it gave a faint squeak, its mother picked it up with her teeth and attached it to the fur near one of her breasts. She turned herself upside down (right side up for a bat) and folded a wing around her offspring...
...children are heard by listeners in six states on The Cliff Johnson Family (weekdays, 8:15 a.m.), a 45-minute show broadcast over Chicago's station WGN. The Family's devoted audience, estimated at 600,000, has even eavesdropped, over a special hospital microphone, on the door-squeak cries of the newest member of the clan: Cliff Jr., who went on the air when he was one day old. Last week, his fans were responding with 6,000 cards, letters and telegrams and with gifts ranging from diapers to gold safety pins...
Truth or Consequences. The enormity of the record last week brought a weird squeak from Commissioner John B. Dunlap, new boss of the bureau. In a speech to the National Press Club, Dunlap warned investigators to lay off lest the public lose confidence in its tax collectors and stop paying taxes. The time has come, said he, "when all of us ... had better draw back and think of the consequences." When this statement brought some tart comments, Dunlap cried foul. He said that his speech should not have been quoted because it was made on an "off the record...