Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight and Robert G. Alderman shared the same noble purpose in life, that of making Knight governor of California. For more than four years, they toured the state together in a breathless, exhausting effort to reach their goal. When Earl Warren moved to the Supreme Court last October, Lieutenant Governor Knight moved into the governor's office, and Executive Secretary Alderman, a onetime child actor, went right along with him. It became, in fact, a bit difficult to tell just who was occupying the governor's chair...
Mountains, when high enough and tough enough, measure men. In three decades, at least 16 men died trying to scale Everest, and eleven expeditions failed to reach its 29,002-foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that...
Terry Moore, wellrounded, perpetually breathless Hollywood actress (Come Back, Little Sheba), prepared to leave this week to entertain U.N. troops in Korea. In her special wardrobe was a get-up that any pressagent might view with pride: an ermine bathing suit, ermine hat and ermine-lined mittens and boots...
Sloan Simpson Show (weekdays 9:05 p.m., station WOR) stars the ex-wife of New York's ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer. On a typical show, breathless, throaty-voiced ex-Model Sloan gave a brief review of the Walt Disney movie. The Living Desert ("Really most unusual"), interviewed two sponsors of Manhattan's Blue Cotillion Ball ("When most people think of balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful...
...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...