Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt. Back in uniform in 1939, Colonel Fonck led a fighter group until France fell, in 1942 disguised himself as a Trappist monk and helped organize an escape route through Belgium for downed Allied airmen. Arrested in 1944 on charges of Vichy collaboration, but never officially indicted, Old War Bird Fonck spent his remaining years running a chemical-products firm in Paris...
Catching a Lady Bird. It was at this stage of his life that the brash young Texan caught Lady Bird (christened Claudia Alta Taylor), the bright, charming daughter of a millionaire Texas rancher. Johnson organized his campaign and surrounded her in typical fashion. The day they met in Austin he asked for and got a date for breakfast the next morning; he courted her for three days until he had to go back to Washington, then kept up a steady fire of letters and telephone calls. They were married ten weeks after they met, and Johnson hustled her back...
Lyndon and Lady Bird campaigned on their $3,000 savings and $10,000 she borrowed on her property, and he succeeded Buchanan. He did it by the trick of campaigning on an all-out New Deal platform, including Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing plan. The stratagem got the nine other more conservative candidates to turn all their fire on Lyndon giving him all the publicity. F.D.R., fishing in the Gulf, heard about Johnson's campaign, took him back to Washington on the presidential train. That was the beginning of a long friendship, renewed and broadened over many...
...name given her as a baby by her family's cook, who said: "Lawd, she's as purty as a little lady-bird." -The election produced a favorite political story in Texas which tells about a Mexican-American who found his friend Paco sitting on a curbstone, weeping: Friend: What troubles thee, Paco? Paco: My old father was here Saturday, and he did not come...
...Mediocrity Magnified." CinemaScope will abolish, at one stroke, the art of the film as it has been practiced since that memorable day in 1907 when Rescued from an Eagle's Nest was released and people hurried in by the dozens to watch a baleful old bird, unmistakably stuffed, clutch a helpless infant in its claws and fly away to eat it up. Gone is the viewer's sense of eavesdropping on activities that are, after all, going on in another room. In CinemaScope, the illusion in the other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms...