Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babe Ruth, in a Manhattan hospital ever since an operation on his neck last November, finally went home. In his famous camel's hair coat & cap he didn't look bad to the camera's eye (see cut), but two people helped him walk from the hospital entrance to his car. "I'm going home for a little vacation," he said. "... I want to look at the river...
...could tell just what Justice Murphy meant. Judge Picard, the man on the spot, had to try. First of all, he had to determine how long it took Mt. Clemens workers to walk from the time clocks to their benches. To find out, he called some witnesses to his courtroom. When a mousy little woman claimed that it took her five minutes to walk 750 feet, outraged company attorneys suggested that the judge clock her on a course in the court corridors. Judge Picard snapped: "I am not going to make an exhibition of this courtroom. Now cut out this...
With no help from wrangling lawyers, the judge had to use common sense. A normal walking pace, he ruled, was three miles an hour. At that speed, no worker took more than three minutes to walk from the portal to his bench...
Into Fairyland. For two harried days Judge Picard, an able, conscientious jurist, tried to get somebody to help him define a trifle. Nobody would. Judge Picard recalled that, before the Supreme Court decision, the company had claimed that it took 14 minutes to walk from the time clock to a workbench. The union had said it was only a minute and a half. Now the company claimed that walking time was only two minutes; now the union said...
...read children's stories over the BBC. She took part in open-air Shakespeare productions in Regent's Park, rising from walk-ons to lines like "Will you go hunt, milord?" There was one incandescent moment when Producer-Director Michael Powell noticed her in an agent's office (he remembers her as "a plump little dumpling who was obviously going places") and wrote a bit for her into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most...