Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loose inside. Station Boss Bill Brennan, 38, a hillbilly-talking Harvard-trained electrical engineer, directs operations in his bathing suit, but he prefers to escape to his plush apartment (separated from the office by a sliding panel operated by a hidden pushbutton). There he can toy with his "bar and his "Play Pretty," a frosted-glass wall behind which colored lights flare and flicker in time with the transmitted music. "On low notes," Brennan explains, "the low part of the panel lights up, and so on. When there are chords, the whole wall goes crazy...
...before muscular, 39-year-old Bill Rankin, combat pilot and a bar-bellhefting, physical-culture fan, would touch earth again, he was in for 40 minutes that even other old salts of the air would be talking about for years...
...scene to gladden even the most jaded cruise director. The open-air movie was filled to capacity with a bronzed, relaxed audience. In the swimming pool near by, energetic types were splashing away at water polo. From the "Bikini" bar came the clink of glasses and the hum of bar babble, and in the soft glow cast by indirect neon lighting, palm leaves fluttered...
Last week, after first granting and then withholding approval, the Kansas City council voted unanimously to bar an emergency fund drive. It issued a bravado-packed statement that "the finest and best medical attention would be furnished by the municipality"-at taxpayers' expense. It ordered the city's health department to make sure that all needy patients get treated at the city's General Hospital. But this left a lot of loose ends. Many patients were being treated in private hospitals-and with the high costs of polio care, almost every family becomes needy...
...crippling attack of polio at the age of four. "With the contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden River . . . My friend, however, was a cold-blooded proposition; as soon as he got his fists on my food, he'd quit . . . Today the tables are turned. The yarn spinners...