Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his glamorous wife Jacqueline at his side, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 36, borne on a stretcher, was wheeled from a Manhattan hospital, then flown to Palm Beach...
Died. James Hilton, 54, smoothly sentimental, bestselling, British-born novelist; of cancer; in Long Beach, Calif. A published novelist at 20, Hilton supported himself for eleven years as a lecturer at Cambridge, free-lance newspaper feature writer and book reviewer while he perfected his seamless style, finally scored in 1934 with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt...
...beach outing he would stumble along behind the party, gazing at a seashell in his fist. His withdrawal may have been necessary, for it concealed an inhuman sort of pride. This passage from Klee's journal stands engraved on his tombstone: "I cannot be understood in purely earthly terms. For I can live as happily with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat nearer to the heart of all creation than is usual. But still far from being near enough...
...Miami Beach sales were 6% above last year; in Los Angeles they were up 12% in some stores. Allied Stores Corp., biggest U.S. department-store chain (69 units), hopes to ring up $100 million in Christmas sales, 16% above last year. For the first time in its history Chicago's big Marshall Field had a million-dollar shopping day in November, as the Christmas season opened. In Boston, Kansas City. Seattle and 30 other major U.S. cities, the Commerce Department took a quick checkup, found Christmas buying running an average 5% ahead of last year...
...last July was no good. This cleared the way for a Manhattan judge to hand Gertrude an easygoing stipend from Astor's easy-come $70 million-$2,500 a month, plus $7,500 for lawyers' fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued him last month for support money. Dolly, who had guilelessly fancied herself No. 3, was left, according to the court, still a lonely grass widow, never legally married to Astor and apparently powerless to take anything...