Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room. There was talk that he threw empty bottles through his window that night, and broke his bedstead. Finally, at week's end, he permitted a doctor to give him a sedative, and then, early one morning, he was carried on a stretcher into a white station wagon and driven to the airport for the trip to the Galveston hospital.* On the way, in his National Guard plane, Long once again erupted, demanded that the plane be turned back to Baton Rouge. Refused, he "busted" the accompanying Louisiana adjutant general to private, and "promoted" the pilot from lieutenant colonel...
Weightier commentators see the status war as containing grave national dangers. Fortnight ago London's Economist pleaded with upper-crust Tories to stop grumbling that workers "are getting above their station." Instead, "the modern Conservative should be one who looks up at the television aerials sprouting above the working-class homes of England, who looks down on the housewives' tight slacks on the back of motorcycles . . . and who sees great poetry in them. For this is what the deproletarianisation of British society means...
Disk Jockey Bob Bandy of station WAPL, in Appleton, Wis., has always believed in direct action. In 1955 he walked through the streets in red underwear because the Braves lost the pennant. In 1958 he sat for 43 days atop the Hotel Balliet to promote a community youth center. Gaudy accomplishments, indeed -but would Bandy be ready when the really big challenge came...
This, thought Bob, was not the sum that had been Bandied about. So that noon, on his introductory show, he waited until the other station people had left, then locked one door, jammed a desk and filing cabinet against the other. On his turntable he placed a song called Only the Shadow Knows, which he had been warned was loathed by President Dorsey. For eight hours well-barricaded Disk Jockey Bandy played Only the Shadow Knows, interrupting it occasionally to comment heatedly on how he had been had. Citizens of Davenport smuggled in hamburgers and soft drinks...
...Powell, is a sort of updated Kitty Foyle that has lost its wit and is fumbling for a moral: social status isn't everything. As in Christopher Morley's 1939 bestseller, the story tells what happens when a Philadelphia girl (Diane Brewster) tries to go beyond her station on the well-known Main Line. She marries into one of the very best families, but on her wedding night discovers that the blue blood has run pathetically thin. Frightened and confused, she flies back to the arms of her redbrick-Irish boyfriend (Brian Keith) and soon finds herself with...