Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Reticent, honest, quick-witted, forthright and cool, he is smallish (5 ft. 7½ in.), a conservative dresser and the possessor of a deep bass voice and a dry, often penetrating wit. Unostentatious, he drives to his Pittsburgh office from his home in Sewickley, Pa. in a 1954 two-door Ford, likes to watch baseball games. Hobbies: golf, fishing and photographing his grandchildren. Bargainer Stephens' definition of the requirements of his job: "To be a skilled negotiator takes character, integrity, quick wit, a keen mind, the ability to speak as the moment requires−with humor, sincerity, pathos...
When the younger jazzmen did away with Dixieland and big-band swing and dove into the cool depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known as an ill woodwind that nobody blows good, this relatively new instrument suddenly struck the U.S. mass ear in the 1920s in the hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz...
Everywhere business on the notoriously rickety second-class buses is declining in favor of new completos (first-class buses). Wealthy Mexicans jam the seashore resorts, or splash in heated swimming pools in the high, cool capital. Long trains chuff north through Sonora and Chihuahua to load record wheat crops...
...Navy and its planemakers, supersonic air war poses a tough question: how to build a jet hot enough to fight all comers yet cool enough to land on short carrier flight decks. Last week the Navy thought it had an answer. Off San Diego, a slim, stub-winged fighter swung in behind the carrier U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard and eased gracefully onto the canted flight deck. The plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could...
...happened, Middlecoff had a fairly cool time of it. Limping on his game left leg, grim Ben Hogan, 43, cracked on the next-to-last green. Fidgeting with nervousness as he stood within grasping distance of his fifth Open title, Ben missed a three-footer, finished a stroke back at 282. Then the only other men Middlecoff had to worry about, Julius Boros of Southern Pines, N.C. and Ted Kroll of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., put themselves out. Middlecoff heard from a TV announcer that Kroll had flubbed his last chance on the 16th. Middlecoff grinned into a camera and told...