Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by three consecutive victories, the freshmen eleven has been working hard on a short-passing game. Injuries, however, may soften the punch of a usually hard-hitting scoring line. Chris Martin, a wing forward, will be missing from the field on account of a pulled tendon, while Philip Bernstein, outside left, will be hampered by a sore ankle...
Unrecognized Treasure Sir: Reading your article about the discovery of a Cellini bust by the De Young Museum of San Francisco [TIME, Oct. 61, I felt worse than a bridegroom reading the account of his wedding. At least the bridegroom gets his name mentioned. You omitted the fact that the bust languished in my Mond'art Galler ies, a nameless orphan, until Museum Director Walter Heil came along, gave it a name and parentage: Cosimo de Medici by Benvenuto ellini...
...moon-probe Pioneer is man's first triumph in applied celestial mechanics. Earth satellites, like bullets, baseballs or missiles, need to contend with the earth's gravitation only. Pioneer was born on a higher level of technical evolution. Its projected course toward the moon took into account three of the overlapping gravitational fields (the earth's, the sun's, the moon's) that govern the solar system. To set it on its trajectory called on theoretical astronomical and mathematical lore that man has painstakingly been accumulating without practical employment since the birth of science...
Democrat, Too. The fast-stepping financing required by such production costs is second nature to Stevens, who quit the University of Michigan as a sophomore when his family was short of cash, seven years later boasted a $50,000 bank account and a $25,000-a-year income from Detroit real estate deals. After a wartime hitch in the Navy, merely making money was not enough for Stevens, and he drifted into Detroit's Drama Guild. Before long, he bought his way onto Broadway, joined the board of ANTA, then became a member of the Playwrights' Company...
...annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders to spend it as conspicuously as possible. The object: to achieve the utmost face and to give the impression that Japanese newspapers were doing just great...