Word: tilling
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...only 92 days till Christmas, and if the U.S. Toy Manufacturers' exhibit, which opened in New York this week, is any indication, it's going to be a mechanized holiday this year. Make-believe is out, if not actually forbidden...
...Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...from Darrtown, Ohio, the fellow who struck out the only time he ever got to bat in the big leagues, the homespun country boy who played percentages so devoutly that the Dodgers paid a fulltime statistician to do his arithmetic. Every fall Alston signed a blank contract, then waited till spring to find out how much the Dodgers were going to pay him (currently: $45,000)-if indeed he was still on the payroll. "We all get fired sometime," he shrugged. "The only question is when...
Three swindlers swindle, till the chances, to swindle dwindle. One goes home crying, the second goes home singing, the third breaks his back trying to swindle other swindlers. You, too, will be swindled unless you arrive on time to see the comic short which starts the show. It is superbly funny...
Technically, he remains Ambassador to Yugoslavia till the end of the month, but when George Kennan, 59, strolled out of the State Department building last week, his on-again, off-again diplomatic career was off again. After goodbyes to such friends as McGeorge Bundy, Averell Harriman and President Kennedy, the noted Kremlinologist was off to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. Kennan is wavering between doing a book on Soviet foreign policy during the last years of the Stalin era or chucking contemporary punditry to "become a real historian and go way back into the 19th century...