Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four wrapped sticks of dynamite were found in Nadia's purse. Both confessed to terrorist activity against the regime of King Hussein, but only, said Nadia later, after "the police stripped me naked, beat me on the legs and thighs and threatened me with rape." Among three others accused with them was a young Moslem terrorist named Ibrahim, who came into court showing the welts of beatings, and able to speak only in whispers because of blows at his throat...
Last month's trials established Columbia as the early favorite, but in the subsequent New York Yacht Club cruise, old Vim beat the new boats handsomely. Then last week, Weatherly came alive, beat both Vim and Columbia. The trials ended with each of the three leaders having beaten the others in match races, but Weatherly, by winning its last five races, sported the best record. Won-lost standings: Weatherly 6-2, Columbia 5-3, Vim 5-3, Easterner 0-8. With so little to choose between the top three, the selection committee scheduled a final trial series beginning Labor...
Faintly but distinctly, the mesmeric boomlay-boom of publicity drums on Manhattan's Madison Ave. is heard 980 miles away in Columbia (pop. 43,000), site of the University of Missouri. Stout-souled citizens wonder what is wrong. Chamber of Commerce members writhe to the beat and get the message. It is so nonsensical that at first it seems to be garbled: name the new boulevard (boom-lay boom) after Milton Caniff...
...Undershirt Riposte. Wald was agitated by TV's "unspeakable hijacking." Examples: last year Playhouse go produced The Helen Morgan Story just in time to capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show their vast world audiences the disadvantages of buying, using or owning" products made by sponsors of offending TV shows...
...took a picture of a square-rigger moored off Manhattan's South Street. The shot won $5 in a photo contest, and when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire of 1904 by driving a farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt's Russo-Japanese peace conference in Portsmouth, N.H. "You really had to push to get shots in those days," recalls Rosy. "The other...