Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week, Vice Admiral Alfred Melville Pride arose in his cabin aboard the cruiser Helena, had toast and coffee, and turned to the papers stacked on his ash-blond desk. He worked silently, sending out blue memo slips with terse messages, e.g., "O.K., I'll go along with this," or simply. "Let's talk." He finished his correspondence by 9 o'clock. Then, one by one through his brown Fiberglas door curtain came the top officers of Pride's Seventh Fleet for a conference. Pride greeted them quietly. These were men who measured...
Fourteen months ago Admiral Pride was given command of the Seventh Fleet. When he transferred his flag to the Helena, his cabin was one that had once been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
...heaviest buying was in the vast array of smaller inboard cruisers, outboards and utility runabouts. Despite increasing costs, boatmakers have held prices to last year's level, and the show had something for every bankroll. Besides the inboard cruisers, twelve boatyards showed off new, inexpensive, outboard cabin cruisers at prices between $1,300 and $2,500. The cruisers, up to 23 ft. long, can sleep two, do 20 m.p.h. with two motors on the stern. For penny-pinching do-it-yourselfers, who knocked together 30% of the 300,000 pleasure boats built in the U.S. last year, there...
James Glenn, NBC's man for special effects, imported three varieties of snow for Christmas week: 1) confetti, for stage-trained comics who see no reason for changing a theater convention that dates back to Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2) modern, featherweight plastic snow that measures about twice the size of nature's flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Uncle Tom's Cabin discussed by Alfred Kazin and Columbia History Professor Richard Hofstader...