Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Johanna Reston, in Clydebank, Scotland on Nov. 3, 1909. His father, a machinist, took the family to the U.S. in 1911, but returned to Scotland in a few months, after Mrs. Reston fell ill. They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"-two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such as Christmas and other holidays; otherwise the family lived in the front room, Mrs. Reston cooking over a grate, the two children, Jimmy and his elder sister (by four years) Joan, sleeping crosswise...
...Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right now is to issue the paychecks on Friday-if there's enough money in the bank...
...wife, were portly Producer Al (High School Confidential) Zugsmith, Novelist-Scenarist Irving (I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf) Shulman, Actresses Pamela (The Upturned Glass) Mason and Terry (Mighty Joe Young) Moore. Explained Terry Moore: "I'm doing it in preparation for a role in Girl on Death Row-and by the way, the girl is innocent." Against such amateurs, an old newspaper pro could only look good-and Hearstling Dorothy Kilgallen is a bona fide professional. Rushed to Los Angeles to perk up the Hearst chain's coverage of the Finch-Tregoff trial. Reporter Kilgallen ranged...
...steel industry scheduled production for the week at more than 95% of capacity for the fourth week in a row, raising chances for the first 12 million-ton production month in history...
...chest. He is also almost too strong for his own good. Last week, at a local indoor high-school meet, they gave him the 12-lb. shot and hustled out of range. Four times in a row the massive senior from De Witt Clinton High School ricocheted his put off the ceiling...