Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's what this network needs-a little guts." Thus speaks a character in The Commentator, a TV script about a newscaster who runs afoul of his employers by editorializing. The network is a fictitious company called Amalgamated Broadcasting, but there are only three TV networks in the U.S., and perhaps it was unrealistic to expect any of them to broadcast such lines or dramatize such a situation. Last week CBS, which had canceled a broadcast by its own Analyst Eric Sevareid for editorializing (TIME, Feb. 25), canceled the scheduled performance of The Commentator on next week...
Last week brought further news of the kidnaped scientist. A party of Western scientists, recently returned from a scientific conference in Moscow, reported that Kapitsa, far from helping the Soviet H-bomb project, had run afoul of Dictator Stalin for refusing on moral grounds to devote himself to the development of thermonuclear weapons. For the last seven years of the Stalin regime, he had, in fact, been kept under house arrest. One of the first acts of the post-Stalin government had been to release the hostage scientist, give him a couple of chauffeur-driven cars and restore...
Some 30,000 Gold Coasters were waiting restlessly when he arrived. He made his apologies-"Man, I've been scoffing plenty with the P.M."-and started to play. Some fans dodged up to the bandstand and started to dance. One ran afoul of the cops, who roughed him up, leaving Louis depressed. "Man, that's why I left New Orleans. I don't like rough stuff...
Playing in the first foursome, Frank Dodge and Al Blinken blanked their opponents, 3 to 0. Mike Taylor and John Filoon halved the front nine, but won 2 1/2 to 1/2. In the third foursome, Dave Bernstein and Bob Grundeman ran afoul of hot Governor putters, losing...
From Guns to Eggs. Massachusetts-born, Bob McLane studied at Babson Institute before he went off to World War II, fought across The Netherlands, returned to Europe after the war as a military government clerk in Wiesbaden. On a trip home in 1949 McLane first ran afoul of the law. U.S. customs officials arrested him in Boston for bringing in an undeclared diamond ring, got him convicted in Federal Court and fined $500. ; Back in Europe that year McLane took leave from his military government post to visit wartime Dutch friends who ran a wholesale food business, got the idea...