Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miller was born near Asheville, N.C., where his father operated the general store and where his uncle, Billy Messer, was police chief for many years. Messer later appeared in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel thinly disguised as Big Bill Messler. At 13, Miller, big enough to pass for 16, joined the Citizens' Military Training Camps, spent a month riding the Sixth Cavalry's well-trained mares in Georgia and practicing on the rifle range until he qualified as a sharpshooter...
...central nervous system with widespread paralysis, or even death. At the Children's Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Enders and his colleagues are now busy screening cultures from 150 of this year's "polio" patients. Their results should be a big addition to medicine's slim store of knowledge about pseudopolio...
...Everything-from raw materials to finished product-is under one roof: rehearsal halls, four studios, a 35-man carpentry shop, a paint shop, even a plaster shop that makes everything from fake balustrades to bottles that shatter when bounced lightly off an actor's head. CBS can also store, for quick reuse, all its scenery and sets (in Manhattan the company spends about $40,000 a week just trucking sets to & from the studios...
Room Service. In Cleveland, looking for a warm place to sleep, Clayton Dailey tossed a brick through a store window, was plainly irritated with the police, when they arrived, for taking so long to haul him to jail...
...gifts going to the winner are: a bracelet from Diana Christine: a Parisian silk scarf from Elaine Claire; a blouse from the Town and Travel Shop: a copy of the Betty Crocker giant cook book from the Harvard Book Store...