Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novak's vacuous eyes, her custard-bowl face: what Harry Cohn hath wrought! C. W. NELSON...
...Administration beat the bushes for a successor to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Charlie celebrated his 67th birthday at a dinner party in the gold-carpeted dining room of Wilson's Pentagon suite, beamed as Mrs. Wilson (Jessie Ann) bestowed on him a china caviar bowl and a Christian Dior shirt...
Research in a Fish Bowl. Whenever a big rocket shoot is scheduled at the Cape, word spreads from homes to stores to filling stations and motels to the concessions on the public beaches, not five miles from the top-secret launching pads. Within the hour the beach crowds are 25% above normal. Binoculars, telescopes and cameras magically appear. "I know there's a missile on a launcher," says an eight-year-old boy, building sand castles, a pair of binoculars around his neck...
...yellow warning spheres are hoisted atop the 90-ft. poles; the eight massive service towers and gantries clank and clatter. The tips of the missiles are often visible on the skyline. "Conducting tests on the Cape," said one missileman, "is like performing research in a fish bowl...
...dresses by Dior and Balenciaga) at 56, Buffie Chandler first dived energetically into public life in 1935 as a volunteer at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, inevitably became a trustee. Inevitably, too, she became a regent at the University of California, almost singlehanded rescued the foundering Hollywood Bowl concerts, collected civic committee chairmanships like baubles on a charm bracelet. It was she, says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great Los Angeles blight: smog. "Buff and I were driving downtown one day in 1946," says Chandler, "and Buff's eyes started...