Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four months after Novelist Edna Ferber called New York the filthiest city in the world and "a scab on the face of our country," Mrs. Wendell Willkie, widow of the 1940 presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...
...Businessman Carl E. Stotz, 43, who decided that organized baseball was just the tonic for lads too small or too young to get into their big brothers' games. Rallying support from local businessmen, Stotz soon had a three-team league-with regulation uniforms, coaches and managers-going full blast...
...British squabble over whether the government ought to allow sponsored television alongside the state-controlled BBC is still going full blast. And J. Fred Muggs, the playful chimpanzee who appeared on a U.S. TV show alongside coronation pictures of the Queen (TIME, July 13), is still used to prove the inevitable tastelessness of commercial TV. In London's weekly Time and Tide, Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of Punch and onetime U.S. correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has written a memorable answer to the enemies of commercial broadcasting. His arguments have meaning not only for Britons, but for Americans who often...
...they had been framed by top officials working with the Alemán-created Federal Security Police, an outfit said to have been controlled by Miguel Alemán's pal, ex-Senate President Carlos Serrano. As their story unfolded, Justice Corona interrupted to loose the most scathing blast yet against the Alemán regime by a highly placed Mexican...
...brief vacation.) Local officials were embarrassed. Omaha's mayor, Glenn Cunningham, took to the air himself to insist that "Omaha is so clean you could eat off it as you would a tablecloth." But though public protests continued, by last week the gambling joints were still going full blast...