Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salmon-Skin Leather. Shoes, handbags, wallets and belts made of salmon skins will go on sale in Manhattan shoe stores this fall. Tanned by a process developed by Tidewater Laboratories, of Bellingham, Wash., salmon-skin leather looks much like cobra skin, is seven times as strong as good calfskin, and can be bleached and dyed any color...
...stands a shade over five feet, and generally has the inoffensive air of a Casper Milquetoast. But at the chessboard Reshevsky becomes a thinking machine. Smoking cigarettes, sipping gallons of ice water, he plays his own special brand of relentlessly logical chess with all the lethal poise of a cobra. Said an opponent: "I think the ice water he drinks goes right into his veins...
There is Churchill, "the naughtiest little boy in the whole world," whose instructors could only keep him quiet by racing him around full tilt all through recesses. There is Churchill, the young subaltern in India, flashing a wicked polo style "like a man thrashing at a cobra with a riding crop." There is Churchill, the captured war correspondent, breaking out of a Boer prison camp with four chocolate bars, and trekking 300 miles to the British lines and the world's headlines. There is Churchill the Conservative and Churchill the Liberal, and Churchill the World War I battalion commander...
Died. Maria Montez (christened Maria de Santo Silas), 31, whose burning eyes, heaving bosom and tawny allure energized a long series of sex-and-geography pictures (Gipsy Wildcat, South of Tahiti, Cobra Woman); in her reducing bath (probably of a heart attack brought on by the scalding water); in Paris, where she lived with her second husband, French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont...
...Gene Cox had done his best to keep the U.S. from sending grain to famine-threatened India. The President had asked for it, the Senate had passed the bill, but "Goober" Cox had tied things in committee, where he thrashed around with the bill like a mongoose fighting a cobra. Last week, when the bill finally reached the House floor, Goober rose for a last convulsive spring. His intent: to keep it from even being debated...