Word: bathtubful
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Harry Truman, 80, fractured two ribs and cut his forehead when he slipped in the bathtub of his Independence, Mo., home. He was rushed to Research Hospital in Kansas City, where he received a dozen red carnations from Visiting Speechmaker Barry Goldwater, with a get-well card that added, "No campaign is worth the name without you." Old H.S.T., however, had already welcomed Goldwater to Missouri with a radio blast taped before the accident and broadcast afterward. Caught with his timing somewhat out of joint, Harry could only mutter, "That's one for the books...
Most of the pilots were pros-airline captains, crop dusters, Air Force officers-shooting at $45,000 in prize money for the nine events. The rest were out for kicks. "I know it sounds ridiculous, but my bathtub at home is bigger than this plane," sighed Clyde Parsons, a 215-lb. California rancher who won a midget-class race by averaging 147 m.p.h. around a 21-mile course in a plane he had painstakingly built in his own garage...
...S.R.O. draw at Convention Hall. The Steel Pier featured Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle and The Diving Horse. And over at the Globe Theater, the management proudly presented "Her Sexcellency" Sally Rand in Person. To the surprise of those who thought Strip per Sally had gone out with bathtub gin, she seemed to have changed hardly at all. For that matter, Atlantic City hadn't either...
...stand up, I'm sinking," when they asked her to pose in spike heels on a soggy lawn. She even tried to elude them when a gift Indian sari was wound about her dress. "It's like taking pictures of me in a bathtub," she chirped. "Y'all wait till I have...
...next series of trials in July. A dour Connecticut Yankee who started racing "dog boats" off Martha's Vineyard when he was twelve, Bill Cox is an old hand at judging tides and winds in protected waters, knows Long Island Sound as well as his own bathtub. He will lose that advantage when the twelves move to wide-open Rhode Island Sound. There, 6-ft. swells are common, and the boats sometimes race in 40-knot winds. But if he was worried, Cox did not show it. "The boat is great," he said. "This crew is the best...