Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew an experimental Bell X-2 to a record-breaking 126,000 ft. Last summer (two weeks before his second child, a girl, was born), during preparations for flying the first manned U.S. space plane, the X-15, blond, handsome Iven Kincheloe, 30, died in an F-IO4 crash. His last words, radioed to the control tower at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.: "Edwards, Mayday seven seven two-bailing...
...started selling slowly, but by last week it was strongly entrenched at the top of the charts. The moon-faced young man who used to pull no more than $750 a week on the road now draws as much as $1,000 for a single performance. He will really crash the big time on the Perry Como TV show this week (NBC, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. E.S.T.). From the sales of Make Believe alone, he expects to clear...
Died. Mel Ott, 49, member of baseball's Hall of Fame, longtime (1926-47) slugging outfielder for the New York Giants who also managed the team during his last six seasons, spent recent summers broadcasting Detroit Tiger games; of injuries resulting from an auto crash; in New Orleans. Ott made Manager John McGraw's team when he was 16. Casey Stengel, then manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, asked for the boy, but irascible John McGraw snarled: "Neither you nor any other minor-league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay...
...Togetherness," a warm, human comedy of American family life, written with "true realism." Father (Gary Grant) is "charming and debonair"-but unfortunately he has been away from home for several years. Mother is rich and beautiful-but unhappily she is a bad driver and gets killed in a car crash. The children (Charles Herbert, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen), as the scriptwriters seem to think, are all that any American parent could hope to have-"carefree, gay, and at times in need of psychiatric care...
...surely the funniest passage in the picture is the long slow crescendo of comedy in which four hard-eyed, ten-year-old gamblers squat in an empty lot, whistle at passing pedestrians, and make book on which of them will look around, forget where he is going and crash into the nearest lamppost...