Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former winners turn out in their bright livery (now red instead of Doggett's orange) and proud 12-oz. silver arm badges to cock critical eyes from official launches. The contestants themselves train for months. This year Ken Collins, 21, a tireless lighterman from Bermondsey, sprinted into an early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's. Behind him came Bob Gibbs, Jack Smith, Ken Green, Dave Reed and Malcolm Troubridge. Still in front when he passed the finish line at Chelsea after 27 min. 20 sec. of rowing, he was only eleven seconds ahead...
...psychiatrists, who published their theory in the A.M.A. Journal: Dr. Adelaide M. Johnson, 52, professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. David B. Robinson, 33, of the Mayo Clinic. They put the blame for deviations squarely and almost exclusively on the parents-who in turn must have been warped by their own parents...
...Aspiring borrowers lined up outside Graham's hotel suite for four days straight, displayed every conceivable kind of sample, from homemade shoes to bedsprings. Best candidates: a bicycle framemaker with only $700 in cash but potential orders totaling $10,000; a group of young leather workers ready to turn out soccer balls by the hundreds as soon as they can get the cash; a young hog farmer with a growing surplus big enough to start a cannery. "I haven't had as much fun in years," said Graham. Then he deposited $25,000 of his own money...
Minute Postcards. Owners of Polaroid Land Cameras, which produce snapshots in one minute, can now turn the pictures into postcards by affixing them to Polaroid Postcarders. One side of a Postcarder has standard message and address sections, the other has a peel-off backing over an adhesive surface. Cost for a package...
...them: "How could I love one of you more than another?" His first objective is the widow Agatha, and she is more than willing. Naturally, Pia grows annoyed, so Angelo appeases her by enrolling her in his quaint little harem. Next: the girl Sylvia. The three raging libidos soon turn their energies to jealousy, then hate, and finally, Angelo's comeuppance...