Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, still remembering the script, Nagle was trailing Player by a stroke after four holes, and decided to put a little extra on his fifth drive. With unerring accuracy, the ball described a half-circle and gonged Miss Alma Pearson of Milwaukee squarely on the head. Blood spurting from her scalp, she shut her eyes and sank slowly to the ground. My God, thought Nagle, I've killed her. "Don't let it get you," said Player. "It happens to all of us." Play on, ordered an official. Nagle swallowed hard, swung-and belted a grass cutter...
Scorning a Script. Descendant of an aristocratic German family, Hans von Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee, left home and school at 14 because he thirsted for "information of the world." He joined the Brooklyn Eagle in 1902, but after a few years of reporting, he decided he needed a formal education and went to Harvard. After graduation, he returned to the Eagle, where he gave weekly lectures on current events. On a whim, the Eagle broadcast one of the lectures, and Kaltenborn was launched on a new career...
...became radio's first regularly scheduled news commentator. Scorning a script, he spoke only from sketchy notes-and sometimes from none at all. Scarcely glancing at the clock, totally unflappable, he rattled off the news without muffing a line. In his early days of broadcasting, a pianist stood ready to knock out a tune if Kaltenborn should run out of words, but the pianist never had to strike a note...
...rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that Jeff's brainstorm was basically unsound. Any competent script doctor would second the diagnosis...
...tall rounded capitals show her artistic ability, and the regularity in the size of her letters and the straightness of her lines indicate strong will and ability to stick to any course she chooses. She enjoys solitude, as the slight backward slant of her handwriting shows, although her large script reveals that she doesn't mind being the center of attention. She is quite frugal-notice that there is hardly any margin on either side, and little on the top or bottom of each page...