Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxer Nova, now playing the part of a gangster in a Manhattan revival of Guys and Dolls, took umbrage at Flaherty's column. "When I read this article," said he, "I was completely sick. My friends were aghast . . . Since the article [appeared], doors have been closed in my face." Nova threw a counterpunch at Flaherty; he filed a $200,000 libel suit against him and the Hearst Publishing...
...first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennistar at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponent's throat...
...kind of Jesuit Stowe to be concerned about the affairs of Princess Margaret and the Church of England [April 18 Letters column], though I don't recall any record of Jesus displaying such questionable taste as jeering at any church's problems...
...amid a cluster of other parachutes carrying little metal canisters. Probable purpose: to estimate the effect of an atomic aerial explosion, such as an antiaircraft shell or missile, on the metal parts of bombers. Another blast was exploded underground (TIME, April 4), gouging a mammoth crater and tossing a column of dirt hundreds of feet into the sky. Reportedly, the bomb was no bigger than a suitcase...
...most exposed surface position to date: in Patton tanks, spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground zero. Just as soon as monitor teams reported a safe level of radiation, the armored column would roll forward to exploit the atomic attack, ready to pin down whatever remnants of enemy power were left...