Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From aboard Rear Admiral Edward Ewen's flagship with Task Force 77, in Korean waters, TIME Correspondent Jim Bell cabled...
...warn her of radiation, Mrs. MacDonald has a portable Geiger counter linked to a detector tube in the garden. When the counter sets off an alarm bell, Mrs. MacDonald will go to her shelter, taking the counter with her to connect up inside so that she will know when the area is clear of radiation and she can safely...
Less than three years ago, with its famed test pilot Captain Charles E. Yeager at the controls, the Air Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane became the first aircraft to fly faster than sound (TIME, June 21, 1948). Last week "Chuck" Yeager, piloting a B-29 with the little X-1 attached to its underside, landed in Washington. The X-1 was being turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, to be added to its collection of more than 100 historic planes.* Not much sentiment was wasted on the occasion: the X-1 was already obsolete...
...Including Handicapper John Blanks Camp bell, racing secretary for the New York tracks who last week rated Hill Prince two pounds bet ter than Middleground in assigning weights fa a handicap at Aqueduct. This reversed his pre season rating of Middleground at 126 Ibs., Hil Prince at 124. *On the eve of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, which Calumet Trainer Ben Jones won with Ponder, a TIME correspondent asked Jones which of his two-year-olds he thought might be his best Derby prospect in 1950. Jones guessed that All Blue might be (TIME, May 30, 1949). Although he came around...
Sound Effects. In Perth Amboy, N.J., police raced to an apartment house to find out why half a dozen tenants' doorbells were all ringing at once, found a young man kissing his girl friend goodnight as she leaned against the bell buttons...