Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Fox was everything a newspaperman should not be. Under the name Washington Waters he wrote a financial column with some of history's most thunderously wrong predictions, e.g., that the Korean war would be a good time to sell short because of a falling market. A frenetic promoter, he once called in his ad manager and announced: "I've got an idea that will knock the Jews in this town on their butts. We're going to send cows to Israel." He got Bernard Goldfine to donate the first cow toward a project that fell flat...
Either answer would be wildly wrong, according to the FBI's latest Uniform Crime Reports. In the FBI list of felony rates in U.S. cities, Chicago ranks as the second most law-abiding of all, next to Buffalo, and the rate in New York City is lower than in Boston. Larger cities in the list, with rates per 1,000 of population for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, auto theft...
...color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly in half in the last year. Explained CBS Vice President Richard S. Salant: "There's no public demand and no advertiser interest. Nobody gives a damn now. Suddenly, some day, color TV will blossom. We guessed wrong when we thought it would come much sooner." ABC has no color programs at all, and no plans to mount any in the near future...
...Vikings (Bryna Productions; United Artists) of this picture are going to make more money in a couple of months than the vikings of history did in a couple of centuries. Anyway, that is what Kirk Douglas expects, and he can ill afford to be wrong. As producer of the picture, he spent more than $4,000,000 to rent a fiord in Norway, a castle in France and studio space in West Germany; to build a 30-acre viking village and to vegetate the countryside with 4,000 bushy-bearded extras; to reproduce a navy of 33 viking ships...
Hedge Hopper. In Hot Springs, Ark., when State Trooper Glen Minton stopped a speeder and asked him why he was displaying on his windshield the campaign stickers of two rival candidates for municipal judge, the man said: "With my traffic record, I can't afford to be wrong...