Word: blue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drafted into a road race for glamorous types who sped for publicity from Rome to Sicily, bosomy Cinemactress Anita Ekberg teamed up with willing Italian Cinemactor Antonio Gerini, set forth in her blue Lancia Flaminia roadster. In the southern town of Castrovillari, the couple tooled abreast of a human roadblock-a group of Anita's male partisans, who screamed, pounded on the car and tried to touch her in order to make sure that she was real. Rattled Driver Gerini tried to bulldoze his way through the idolaters, succeeded in setting off a stampede, gently bowling over a half...
...fight experts only grinned and shrugged off Challenger Johansson, 26, as a good, clean-cut Swedish kid, an import of blue-eyed, dimpled innocence who would be diced into smorgasbord by the flashing attack of Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson. Nobody was impressed by the fact that Johansson was undefeated in his 21 fights, last year had demolished No. 1 Contender Eddie Machen with the very same right. European heavyweights, however upright their intentions, traditionally have been horizontally inclined against American champions. And Patterson, 24, camping in a grubby New Jersey shack, grimly punishing himself in training with everything...
...strong (about half editorial, half other categories), the Guild guarantees today's journeyman reporter a good minimum wage-$157.10 a week on the New York Daily News, $136 on the Los Angeles Herald-Express, $105 on the Indianapolis Times. And his security is as thoroughly bolted as any blue-collar compositor's. Typically, he gets severance pay, three weeks' paid vacation a year, paid sick leave, a pension, a 40-hour week or less, and the contractual right to arbitrate his grievances with the boss...
...naturally rich and boiling with life. The water of breaking waves in such areas is green and turbid because it is full of microscopic plants and animals grazing on them. But large parts of the ocean are deserts with hardly any life. Their breaking waves are sapphire blue, the color of clear and lifeless water. Fish migrate away like cattle from a grazed-out range...
Half Impresario, Half Human. With that kind of change, Terrell loafs through the off season in an 18-room, 220-year-old mansion five miles from Lambertville, cruises about in a 1940 Rolls-Royce. Once the tents go up, Terrell haunts tryouts in blue jeans and Texas hat, exhausts a 250-man staff. "Half the time he's the impresario," says a friend. "The rest of the time he's human...