Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a doctorate in physics. During World War II he headed up the Army's investigation of Japanese incendiary balloon attacks on the West Coast. After World War II he studied guided-missile work with Caltech Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman in Germany and Japan...
...Bachelor Athlete. For Hartack, getting the mostest out of a horse starts with the warmup jog to the starting gate. He seems to examine his mount with the seat of his pants and the toes of his boots. "If a horse has a bad leg I change the stride in the warmup so's the horse will put his weight on both legs. Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering...
Bless Bob. In the 1954-55 season, Pettit was the N.B.A.'s rookie-of-the-year. Two years ago he led the league in scoring. Last year a broken arm kept him from topping Minneapolis' George Mikan's scoring record of 1,932 points. This year Bachelor Bob, 25, was again leading the league when he snapped a bone in his hand a month ago, has since slipped to a respectable third (behind Detroit's George Yardley and Syracuse's Dolph Schayes). For these deeds Pettit gets about $20,000 a year from the Hawks...
...European Economic Community. A former Frankfurt University rector who, as Under Secretary in the Foreign Ministry, ably negotiated some of Konrad Adenauer's most notable diplomatic accomplishments (the basic treaties with the Allies, the Saar treaty with France, Israeli reparations, Schuman Plan membership), Bachelor Lawyer Hallstein has won the full confidence of der Alte as a "good European," sure to work devotedly for the ultimate creation of a larger free-trading area that will include Britain and most other European nations and rival the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in wealth...
Died. John Thoburn Williamson, 50, Canadian-born geologist, owner of the world's richest diamond mine (in Tanganyika), whose fortune was estimated at nearly $100 million; of cancer of the throat; in Mwadui, Tanganyika. Bachelor Williamson began diamond prospecting in South Africa in 1935, five years later struck a pipe eight times larger than South Africa's famed Kimberley Mine. Refusing to sell out to the De Beers cartel, Williamson nevertheless marketed his diamonds (average yearly output: $8,000,000 worth) through the syndicate, gave generously to African charities...