Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, its appearance brought a blizzard of complaints howling down upon Editor Gosta Blomberg and the offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
...foot cliff in British Columbia. Below him was a 500-foot sheer drop to a pile of avalanche rock and above him a 200-foot granite face; he had nothing to stand on but a rock ledge two feet wide. The sun had set and a blizzard was tearing about him, and there was only one thing Dunn conld do. He rolled out his sleeping bag and went...
...left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...
Special citations for special programs: New York City's WNEW, Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Boston's Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, San Francisco's KNBC, Savannah's WDAR, western radio stations (for service during last year's blizzard...
...managing editor. He brought along a flair for big pictures and blatant headlines. When Edward VIII abdicated, Ruppel proclaimed LONG LOVE THE KING! He sent a reporter to an Illinois mental hospital as a patient, bannered the inside story SEVEN DAYS IN THE MADHOUSE. After a blizzard: SNOW, SNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES SNOW. In four noisy, readable years under Ruppel, Times circulation doubled...