Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Canaveral. Fla., the Air Force's first attempt to send an Atlas ICBM its full intercontinental range-more than 6,000 miles-ended in failure when the giant rocket exploded 60,000 ft. in the air. only So seconds after leaving the launching...
...they haven't come out of hiding with the first issue, as Mr. Robinson freely concedes. His poets in Number One are generally his friends from the Cape. Mr. Robinson says Harvard poets likely will get the nod next time, and it will be a good thing, no matter how reluctant they are, because the poetry he prints in his first affair is not entirely up to scratch...
Blue-Water Racer. Ever since he learned to sail as a boy on Cape Cod, Designer Stephens has shown the same loving and calculating care for boats. Son of a prosperous Bronx coal dealer, he completed one year at M.I.T., got jaundice, never went back to college. Instead, he studied ship design so thoroughly by himself that when he was only 19 Marine Architect Drake H. Sparkman asked him to form a partnership. Later, Architect W. Starling Burgess invited Stephens to collaborate on the J-Boat Ranger, the fastest yacht in history,* which defended the America...
...days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...back door was Provincetown's harbor, with gulls wheeling and blue water glinting in the September sun. Within, on the white walls of the HCE Gallery* hung seven huge canvases that seemed to catch the seaside shimmer and give back a tranquil reflection of the dune bushes, the Cape Cod fish pier, the cool blue of the sea. They were the latest work of Painter Milton Avery, whose clear, thinly brushed colors, picturing simple scenes, have earned him, at 65. a quiet, spreading fame...