Word: beech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jamming a chaw of Beech-Nut tobacco into his cheek, Larry Csonka jumped into a blue Chevrolet pickup truck and, with his older brother Joe at the wheel, bounced down a deeply rutted, brown dirt road to get a close look at 80 acres of Ohio potato and corn fields up for rent. "It's real good land," Joe said as they surveyed the rolling countryside in the fresh fall air. "It's got good drainage and you can see the good crop growing here." Larry nodded. "We can use the land," he said. "Let's take...
Purple Prose. The man who made LIFE was a Southerner, born at Redcliffe, the Beech Island, S.C., plantation built by his great-grandfather, onetime South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator James Henry ("Cotton Is King") Hammond. Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed...
Turk is an enthusiastic guide who leavens his tours with puns and one-liners. Sample: "Have you heard about the tree that didn't know whether it was a son of a birch or a son of a beech?" But he is serious about spreading the word that trees can repair the land, and has even written and published a book, The New Forest, describing his experiences. The book is dedicated to the spirit of Johnny Appleseed, who "planted while others palavered." Those words could just as easily describe Turk Jones...
Died. Lloyd Stearman, 76, pioneering U.S. aircraft designer; of cancer; in Northridge, Calif. A Navy pilot during World War I, Stearman teamed up with two other air-struck Kansans, Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna, to build a generation of simple biplanes that became the Model Ts of the barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued...
...Cliffe squad beat Hollins, 8-1, on Wednesday before travelling to Boone, N.C. for a match with Appalachian State. Appalachian State is located a few miles down the road from Beech Mountain, one of the South's best known ski resorts, and on Thursday there was snow covering the slopes and the courts cancelling any tennis...