Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basic Bestsellers. The cash came early: Fats is only 29. Eleven years ago he was plunking out "back-beat," barrelhouse piano while he sold "snowballs" (shaved ice and flavoring) from a New Orleans streetside stand. By 1949, he played "rhythm and blues"-the record trade's postwar tag for Negro pop music with the beat, but not the brass, of Dixieland. His record, The Fat Man (Imperial), hit for an 800,000-copy sale. In 1955 rhythm and blues got transformed into rock 'n' roll and began to boom; so did Fats...
...Journalist Pierre Daninos and the Englishman is Major Thompson, the hero of The Notebooks of Major Thompson (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), a collection of Daninos' sometimes hilarious feature stories that has sold more than half a million copies in Europe and the U.S. To turn this rag, tag and bobtail of epigram, anecdote, whimsy and general small beer into a movie was, according to Sturges, "like trying to make a film of the telephone directory." But, except for a few wrong numbers, Director Sturges has done the trick with a controlled crack. pettiness that will take many moviegoers back...
...Inertial Guidance system that guided the 1953 flight with nearly pinpoint accuracy weighed a hefty 2,700 Ibs., got the tag "navigation in a closet." To be effective in a missile where each pound of excessive weight exacts a heavy toll in lost speed and distance, the mass of wires, tubes and gyros would have to be slimmed down from closet to pocket size. Advances in accuracy and miniaturization since the first flight are classified, but the M.I.T. scientists, who have been working on Inertial Guidance since 1939, serve as consultants to the Air Force and Navy on such systems...
...popped up, and the infield fly rule was called, putting him out. The ball fell between the catcher and third baseman, and Bergantino ran for the plate, along-side the Cornell fielder, who didn't bother to tag him, thinking he could put him out by stepping on the plate. He was mistaken, and should have been charged with an error...
Q.E.D. In San Francisco, the Traffic Fines Bureau received Howard Frohlich's $2 parking tag in an envelope along with: a 20? dividend check from one share of Pan American World Airways stock, a state expense check for $1.35. and a 40? stockbroker's refund check, all made out to Frohlich and endorsed to the bureau, totaled it up to $1.95, looked again, found his personal check...