Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover this tough assignment, the editors picked Jim Bell, who was back in the U.S. to mend an arm injury that he got in Korea. You may remember some of Bell's stories since he joined our Chicago staff in 1942. His account of the 1947 Centralia Mine disaster is still the model for young correspondents on Mid-West assignments. Among the cover stories for which he supplied background: Harold Stassen (1947), FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover (1949), Frank Costello (1949), and Charles E. Wilson (1951). In his work as a war correspondent, Bell's "Battle...
...Teheran Bell found people so hospitable that it was hard to get work done. In cablese he reported, "eye got coffee running out one ear, tea outa other . . . learned love caviar teheran where tis but six bits for all you can eat. budget going to take hell of beating when eye get home, learned like vodka, only approximation dry martini teheran...
...Bell found less comfort when he headed for the line where the worst trouble could begin - the Russo-Iranian frontier between the Caspian Sea and Mt. Ararat. Nervous officers showed him their defense preparations and tried to keep him hidden from watchful Russian binoculars across the line. In the whole area he found panic-ridden faces, men afraid to talk for fear of the police or of ever-present Communist agents...
While covering a meeting of the anti-British Fadayan Islam, Bell ran into a strange sort of trouble. He and three other correspondents jeeped up to the Shah's Mosque, where a Fadayan fanatic had assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara. The crowd of Fadayans suddenly became a shouting, angry mob, surrounded the correspondents' jeep, beat on the window curtains and bounced the little car around. After three false starts down dead-end streets, the correspondents escaped. The cause of all the row: the rioters had thought that Bell was Winston Churchill...
...monster electronic clock, the last word in precision timers, went into operation last week at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The secret of the new clock's accuracy is a set of four quartz crystals, about the size of matchbooks, which vibrate in controlled temperature vacuum chambers at 100,000 cycles per second. Their function: to control the pulses of current which drive the mechanism. Working together with 600 electron tubes, the crystals operate with a margin for error of about one part in a billion...