Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Matthew Smith, 64, secretary of the Mechanics Educational Society of America, and sometime maverick of U.S. labor, who in 1942 created the Confederated Unions of America to buck the hegemony of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Articulate, Lancashire-born Matthew Smith-who stirred up the nation when he called strikes in wartime-thought that the closed shop, dues checkoffs, rigid seniority systems and party politics should be shunned by a healthy union...
...priceless-to-science" body of Laika, the Russian dog still orbiting in Sputnik II, rival spaceships battled grimly last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
...soon as Sputniks I and II joined Captain Rogers in outer space, editors across the U.S. started signing up in droves for the daily and Sunday strip. By last week 154 U.S. dailies and some 100 foreign papers in 18 languages were hitched to Buck Rogers' spaceship. The syndicate is already feeling crowded by man's real-life advance into space. Sighs Artist Rick Yager, Buck's longtime (16 years) copilot, who works eight weeks in advance: "It's getting pretty hard to think up things that the scientists can't possibly build-right away...
Stanislaus became indignant when Jim took to boozing and wenching with Oliver St. John Gogarty, the "stately plump Buck Mulligan" of Ulysses. Recalls Stanislaus of his brother: "I hated to see him glossy-eyed and slobbery-mouthed." Gogarty confessed to another friend that he wanted "to make Joyce drink in order to break his spirit," and celebrated the occasions of sin with a limerick...
...capital gain. The moviemaker, which has still to raise the cash for the project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate in a city that is rapidly running out of space. Quietly for the past year, Fox has been drawing up plans to exploit the plot. Architect Welton Becket's models call...