Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wood-paneled London office near Covent Garden's clamorous produce market, A. B. (for Arthur Bernard) Clements, 60, editor of the Sporting Life, sat down one morning last week to flip through his mail. As usual, it contained requests for him to arbitrate disputes between British horse-race bettors and their bookies. As usual, Clements prepared a judicious answer to each query...
When it comes to the King Arthur story, a myth is as good as a mile. Just about all anyone knows of the historical Arthur is that he lived in the 6th century. Nine hundred years later, when "Syr Thomas Maleore, knyght" put together Morte d'Arthur, he was already synthesizing a well-encrusted legend, the sources of which he "dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe." Another 400 years and the parfit gentil knights in the pious allegories of Alfred Lord Tennyson startlingly resembled iron-padded Victorian cricketers, later followed...
...middy, but his first plane ride, in a yellow twin-engined H16 seaplane, sent him soaring into a pilot's career. In 1930 he became a member of the U.S. Navy's famous Fighting Squadron 1, the High Hat Squadron (skipper of the High Hats: Lieut. Commander Arthur W. Radford). Nine of the High Hats, including Thach and Radford, barnstormed the nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls and high wing overs-and never snapped a rope...
...British challenger, nimbly outran its own trial horse (a U.S. 12-meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly, Donald Matthews' 19-year...
When Railroader Arthur Samuel Genet was brought in as president of limping Greyhound Corp. three years ago, he took a look around and began to deride the company's veteran bus executives. Genet, who had done well as freight vice president of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, growled that the sales staff of the world's biggest intercity bus line had "no thorough experience or training" and was "sitting on its hands." He charged that the advertising and publicity programs had "failed miserably...