Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lique, already a U.S. bestseller, is an enormous fairy tale for adult children, of whom there are legions. The French eagerly took to Angélique as a serial in France-Soir. It ran for more than a year, time enough to catch a breath between one night's adventure and the next. The reader of the 890-page U.S. translation must pace himself, and should be warned that the author is one up on him from the beginning. Novelist "Sergeanne" Colon is not one person but two-an apparently indefatigable French man-and-wife team (Serge and Anne...
...came with a checkbook, but he made it. He is in the theater. And his contribution is unique. You described him the opening night of a hit. Closing night of a flop tells a lot more. He blew in from somewhere (London? Washington? Detroit?) to catch the author. "I'm glad...
...only player I know who can run faster sideways than he can straight ahead," says Pittsburgh's guard Dale Dodrill. Says the Steelers' speedy defensive halfback Jack Butler: "I don't really know how to stop him. I haven't been able to catch up to him yet." Los Angeles Linebacker Dick Daugherty, one of the surest tacklers in football, recalls the day last year that he zeroed in on Brown for a tackle: "I really hit him hard-bounced him back. It would have stopped anyone else, but not Jimmy. He took off again...
...output for at least three months. Output this week is scheduled at 107,000 cars, highest of the year. Ford has already sold 100,000 new models, more than 10% of its 1958 model sales. Plymouth is 100,000 cars behind dealer orders. Chevrolet will not be able to catch up on orders for at least two months. American Motors Corp. broke all its previous production records, has nudged out Pontiac to become No. 6 carmaker with 159,000 cars produced so far this year...
...mile shoot). Still, the U.S. has yet to go the full distance with the Atlas 5,500-mile ICBM. In missiles, more than in any other field, the Russians may have the edge on the U.S., principally because of their head start. U.S. missile production should be able to catch up. If it does not, missiles could become the weapon that can give the Soviets promise of becoming a more even match for the West...