Word: campers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school because" contest conducted by radio station WIND, Chicago [TIME, Sept. 8], is heartening and timely. Ellen Goldsmith of suburban Glencoe, Ill. was the $100 grand prize winner. She is 14 and a high school freshman. Ellen is no egghead: she is active in scouting, athletic, a topflight camper, loves to jitterbug and is studying piano. I am a proud grandpa...
Pushbutton Camper. An experimental station wagon for campers, with a boat, tent, refrigerator, two-burner stove, sink with hot and cold running water, shower and curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...
...Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed him. In Meredith's The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex English lady joins battle with a simple British general, reduces his defenses, and finally takes him into her camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning...
...toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes as a writer. His account of the trip to Nepal, the organization of the expedition, and the search for a route up the mountain sometimes reads like a boy camper's letter to a chum. It is a tribute to the pure terror of his experiences after victory that his writing then takes on the intensity of his subject...
...fishing trip in the Sierra Nevadas, 60 miles north of Bishop, Calif., former President Herbert Hoover, 78, had a narrow brush with death. Billy Jenny, a 21-year-old vacationing camper, happened to wake, saw that the nearby mountain lodge was afire and rushed to shout a warning. By the time he arrived, the only escape was from the lake side of the house into a motor launch. Out on the safety of the lake, clad only in their night clothes, Hoover, his host, and other guests watched the lodge burn to the ground within ten minutes...