Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spit-and-polish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., sourly noted the uniformed posteriors of some of his men, ordered all Marine commanders to take "immediate steps" about "the trousers too short and too tight in the seat...
...earth has "boils" that form in its rocky flesh, rise toward its skin, and sometimes break through. Proper appreciation of these ailments, said Geologist C. Wroe Wolfe of Boston University last week, should lead to the discovery of valuable ore deposits...
...survey of Chinese landscape painting ever assembled in America. Its 137 exhibits, borrowed from collections as far distant as Tokyo and Beirut, ranged from the 4th century to the 19th, and included dozens of masterpieces. Though Europe has produced a host of great landscapists, from Claude Lorrain to Paul Cézanne, the West's best could have learned much from the Chinese...
...wells in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. It can operate in 100 ft. of water (v. 40 ft. for most other rigs), will triple the area that can be explored on the continental shelf off Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Gus was bought by (and named for) C. G. ("Gus") Glasscock, 58. a onetime high-wire acrobat and wildcatter who now owns eight drilling barges for lease. The small fleet's new flagship is being towed to a point off San Luis Pass below Galveston to sink its first test well (in 40 ft. of water...
...Carson-have spent so much of their acting careers in the straitjacket of formula farce that they wear it like high-fashion undies. Carson is a very slick comedian; his expression, as he muses on the possibilities of a round bed, could hardly have been improved on by W. C. Fields. Holliday and Lemmon, after only two pictures together, must be acknowledged as the smoothest new comedy team in show business. A nice bit: Holliday, slopping together an amateur Martini for Carson, says anxiously, "I probably bruised the gin." Carson looks. "Not a mark on it," he says heartily...