Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour later, an Italian fisherman cruising off the island of Elba (where Napoleon was once a prisoner) marked the Comet's presence in the sky overhead. "I heard a roar," he said, "very high. Then there was a series of blasts. The next thing I saw was a column of smoke plunging straight down into...
...last week, the Park Service and Sculptor Hansen seemed at hopeless deadlock. Hansen charged that when he agreed in 1949 to design a new figure, install it and repair the shaft, he did not know the condition of the column. His new, 13-ft. granite statue, he says, will "last for 10,000 years," and he objects to putting it on a base "that has not lasted the life time of a frame bungalow." The Park Service replied that Government engineers have inspected the shaft, and with a little fixing, it will be perfectly safe. Besides, Congress only appropriated...
What they did during the war and how they did it is the story Theodore Roscoe tells in U.S. Destroyer Operations in World War II. Based on action reports, official records and personal accounts, Author Roscoe's 581 double-sized, double-column pages give the most vivid and exhaustive description of U.S. destroyer accomplishments likely to be written in years. It is too detailed to become a popular success, but those who like to go down to the sea in books will find its pages packed with action...
...hold Sacks to a mere 14 points, however, before he fouled out, but Ed Blodnick helped fill the slack with ten, and Ed Condon added seven more. The Crimson piled up a field goal margin of 18 to 11, to make up for a deficit in the free throw column...
...scrawls her column in longhand that only her secretary can read, usually rewrites her This Week column five or six times. Clem speaks in a hoarse whisper as a result of an operation in which part of her larynx and vocal cords were removed 20 years ago (it took her a year to learn to talk again). In her summer home in Redding. Conn., she likes to cook in the open fireplace over the coals. "I think I cook a nice meal," she says modestly, prefers simple curries, baked beans and brown bread, spaghetti. One night a week...