Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep," he relates. "There was a frightful crash and I ran on deck, thinking of a robot bomb. But a landing craft, filled with newspaper reporters and, I think, steered by one of them, had smashed into us. They dented...
Steel Builder. If the day of the poor man's yacht had not quite arrived, Steel-craft's Jack Churchward, 54, was doing his best to make it dawn. Ever since he graduated from Princeton, Jack Churchward has tinkered with welding processes. His inventions made money but his ambition was to become the Henry Ford of pleasure boats...
Vital Ingredient. In a busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and large, pure mythology. . . . Any economic plan is workable just so long, and only so long, as it is sustained by faith...
Inevitably, the chief hero of Flexner's book is Boston's John Singleton Copley, who made an art out of the craft. His stepfather died in 1751, and Copley at 13 had somehow to support his mother and infant halfbrother. Though portraiture was built on stylistic tricks and flattering poses of which he knew nothing, young Copley decided that...
...first crash of a DC-6, luxurious, pressurized, 300-mile-an-hour craft which went into commercial service last spring. The toll was U.S. aviation's second highest (the highest: 53, killed last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects...