Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Charlie Wilson retired from the battlefield for a while. He and Jessie joined the boss aboard the presidential plane, Columbine III, for a trip south. Ike was heading for a Georgia golf weekend, the Wilsons for a two-week Florida vacation. Asked why he was accompanying the President, Wilson replied: "I was invited along." Jessie Wilson smiled amiably, this time said nothing...
Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable, one-legged (from a 1932 bomb- throwing) diplomat who signed Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the Missouri, served twice as Foreign Minister (1943-45, 1954-56); of a heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but wanted no part of a war with Britain or the U.S. He had little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed...
...stern themes of duty and responsibility. At the end of the world, on Borneo, he ran across a half-caste called Almayer who belonged to no world. Thus with Almayer's Folly began his great work. Almost compulsively, Conrad wrote between watches in his cabin aboard the Torrens, a crack Aus tralian-run clipper. The book was accepted, and he never sailed again...
...carfare hike dawned bright and chilly, and Barcelona's 463 streetcars started on their runs. Not a soul climbed aboard. Subways and bus lines were also nearly empty. Thousands of people who work two jobs to earn enough to live on got up at 5 a.m. to walk to work; their bosses, even at City Hall, were sympathetically tolerant of tardiness. Word had passed that there were to be no noisy gatherings, no overturned streetcars-just the simple protest of walking or hitchhiking...
...Sistine Chapel." French Painter Andre Massno started the bandwagon five years ago by boldly calling Monet's Water Lily panels in Paris' Orangerie "the Sistine Chapel of impressionism." Collector Walter Chrysler Jr. and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both climbed aboard, bought late-Monet paintings (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). The Monet boom resounded even louder with a show of his late works last summer by Paris Art Dealer Katia Granoff, who bought from Monet's son, Michel, the paintings that for decades had been stored at Monet's Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel...