Word: canyoneering
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...Journal's morning tabloid sister, the Mirror, was started in 1924 with the slogan: "90% entertainment, 10% news"; it still lives up to this. The biggest attraction is Columnist Walter Winchell, plus Drew Pearson and popular comic strips (Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka, Steve Canyon...
...natural resources, Neuberger seemed to be campaigning less against Cordon than against Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, whose "partnership" power policy has been received with mounting hostility in McKay's native state. To balding Dick Neuberger, this issue, especially the fight over the nearby Idaho Hell's Canyon project, coupled with the discontent among 100,000 lumbermen after a ten-week lumber strike, made 1954 the year, if any, for a Democrat in Oregon...
...Republican Representative J. Edgar Chenoweth is having trouble because he is blamed for the failure of the G.O.P. Congress to approve an Arkansas River reclamation bill that he himself introduced. Idaho's Democratic Representative Grade Pfost is ahead because she advocates public power at Hell's Canyon...
...avoid noise-and enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
...frequent condition of his living quarters-in Hollywood a five-room bungalow in Benedict Canyon, in New York City a vast studio in Carnegie Hall-was perhaps best described by a man who came to deliver a vacuum cleaner. "That boy doesn't need a vacuum cleaner," he said. "He needs a plow." The mess was at its worst in the days when Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls...