Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, yet clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years, they may serve to perpetuate a legend (fog, a barrel-organ and a 1921 Unic taxi honking its way through the murk). The remainder are finding their way, rather quickly, to the junkyard...
...Louis Coxe wrote the first draft of Billy Budd. Neither remembers who first suggested it since both had specialized in Melville as undergraduates. After the Experimental Theatre produced the play in '49, they rewrote it for an interested Broadway producer. "We did it in six days over a barrel of Martinis," Chapman remembers with a contented grin. "God, what a wonderful time...
Died. Thomas Joseph ("Sailor Tom") Sharkey,* 79, boxing great of the 1890s, always a contender, but never a champion ; of a heart disease; in San Francisco. Barrel-chested Tom Sharkey left his native Ireland at twelve to go to sea, knocked out 39 opponents in 54 fights, yet lost his crucial bouts with Heavyweight Champions Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He came closest to the title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running...
...simple game, this water shooting, but an intricate sport requiring a special set of arms, with new models appearing annually. Most popular of the latest crop is the blood-red "shorty" model, easily palmed out of sight and fired from the hip. Its blunt barrel is designed for the lazy gunman who lacks the energy to fire further...
...more expensive big brother, the long-barreled revolver, shoots for a guaranteed 75 feet, and further, if boosted with a special jet squirt. The sleek, narrow barrel aims with pin-point accuracy, known to flick a pencil from a hand. Even the great man of guns, Ed McGiverin, claims no such feats in his "Fast and Famous Revolver Shooting...