Word: bells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when its hands stood at 11 o'clock and its sonorous bell, nicknamed Big Ben after Sir Benjamin, boomed the hour (in E below middle C), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and other parliamentary dignitaries gathered to tender happy 100th anniversary greetings to Big Ben and its dependable companion...
...improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At first their magazine was filled with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found the right man: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a 23-year-old, ninth-generation New Englander. Gilbert Grosvenor married Bell's daughter...
Bare-Breasted Boldness. With Bell's approval, Editor Grosvenor drew a bead on the world's armchair explorers. In the name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole...
This rule gives an unrealistic hue to the Geographic's rose-colored world; the Geographic has not carried an article on Soviet Russia for 15 years. "How can we do it," said Editor Melville Bell Grosvenor, "without making it sound friendly?" The Geographic is trying, now has a Russian article in the works...
Sharing the Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...