Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base of the skull (so that any residue at killing time would be thrown away with the head). Thus artificially caponized, the fowl gain weight faster than surgically castrated birds. Caponettes made up about 1% of the U.S. poultry output, were sold mainly in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas...
...Baltimore Colts overwhelmed the Los Angeles Rams, 45-26, to win the Western Conference title, will match pro football's best offense against the game's best defense (TIME, Nov. 30) in the play-off later this month with the Eastern Conference's champion New York Giants. ¶ Looking for more batting power, the New York Yankees staged the biggest trade of the off-season by giving up aging (37) Outfielder Hank Bauer, erratic Pitcher Don Larsen (1959 record: 6-7), fumble-thumbed Outfielder Norm Siebern, and Reserve First Baseman Marv Throneberry to the Kansas City Athletics...
...YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY has been in business five years, seen its output multiply fivefold. Its famed UNESCO series of outsize volumes in color now numbers 13. Graphic's list includes such eye-bugging revelations of out-of-the-way art as Ravenna Mosaics. Outstanding this season: Etruscan...
...Wait to Die? Dana gets as much fun out of giving as he did out of getting. He was to both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state...
...little girl and the grown woman seemed to recognize each other at once. Like Anne's, Patty Duke's childhood belonged to the streets of New York. Her father (a taxi driver) and her mother (a checker at Schrafft's) were separated; before Patty got her first TV roles, the family teetered on the edge of poverty. In Miracle Worker, it was Anne to whom Patty looked for approval; it was Anne who became her particular pal. Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes...