Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After listening attentively to the songs from Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided that some of the Cole Porter lyrics were not fit for Aussie ears, banned the playing of I Hate Men, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare...
...tentative rankings, released a month ago, the U.S.L.T.A. put Tony Trabert, national clay court champion, in the No. 1 spot. Vic Seixas, national grass court finalist, was ranked No. 2. In the No. 3 slot: Australian and Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt. After last week's meeting, the ranking order was juggled in topsy-turvy fashion, but not before a lot of gratuitous advice had been thrown in from the sidelines...
Christina Stead is a globe-trotting Australian who has written caustic novels about failures in Sydney, high finance in Europe, black marketeers in Manhattan. The critics have generally praised her books, but the paying public has held back. Her new novel seems likely to get the same sort of reception. A snappish inquiry into the ways of men and dogs, it will appeal to those who take their reading extra-dry, their wit offbeat, their people eccentric...
This study was compiled for the Economic and Social Council of the U.N. by a board of five economists including Professor James W. Angell of Columbia University, two Britons, an Australian, and a Mexican...
Sloths & Cadets. But his interests were anything but narrow. In 1928 he turned to aviation, backed two Australian pilots, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles T. P. Ulm, in the first transpacific flight ever made. Then, at 53, he decided to learn to fly on his own. That same year, he founded a College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, and later put that, too, at the disposal of U.S.C. During World War II, the college turned out more than 8,000 cadets, including eight of Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo raiders. Today it is one of the best schools...