Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the passengers aboard the U.S. transport General Patch when it left New York harbor for Europe last week were Mr. & Mrs. Frank Carlson. They were off on a month's trip to Europe to see their daughter Eunice Marie in Bremerhaven, and to visit Sweden, Great Britain and France. It was just a vacation, apparently. Nevertheless, the eyes of some key U.S. politicians were riveted on one Carlson stopover: Paris. Republican Senator Carlson of Kansas, one of the top men in the Ike-for-President movement, is going to Paris to talk with General Dwight Eisenhower...
...Fairy Godmother, but she had always had very small feet. Last week when she read in Figaro that the shoemakers of Paris were holding a contest to nominate "Miss Cinderella of 1951"-the girl with the smallest feet-Madame de Siva left her tenement in Montmartre and jumped aboard the Pumpkin Coach...
...find of rare minerals (TIME, Oct. 15). One of the heaviest buyers was Broker Ted Sterling of Toronto's Watt & Watt brokerage house, who spread the word among his customers that the stock looked good. As the customers and other buyers in the U.S. and Canada climbed aboard the gravy train, "Moly" soared from $13.50 to $80.50 a share...
...Thin Edge. A score of smaller Hollywood competitors are already aboard the TV bandwagon. They range from shoestring producers to such established companies as Jerry Fairbanks, Inc., which employs a timesaving three-camera technique (TIME, March 6, 1950). Broidy Productions (owned by a brother of the head of Monogram Pictures) makes Wild Bill Hickok films for TV, and turns out a 30-minute religious show with such titles as Sister Martha Bets 'Em Big. Bing Crosby Enterprises hopes to captivate televiewers with a new series featuring a cast of chimpanzees enacting Sherlock Holmes thrillers...
...great believer in loyalty," said he to his new crew. "Loyalty up and loyalty down. I give loyalty and I expect loyalty of everyone at this college." Despite a falling barometer and the nasty weather piling up on the horizon, the admiral seemed to expect nothing but smooth sailing aboard the good ship William and Mary...