Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
...best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund, urbane fairy godfather named J. J. O'Malley. O'Malley's cigar doubled as a magic wand and usually kept him and Barnaby at odds with the slow-witted real world around them...
...full height, gesticulating expressively, sweeping his listeners along. Sometimes he interrupts to point out his mother. "Stand up, Mama, and let the folks see you. There's my mom," he cries, as the congregation applauds. And then he tugs at heartstrings: "You all remember little redheaded Oliver Crockett who used to sit right down there and sing so loud every Sunday. Well, you will be shocked as I was when they called me last night to say he died fighting in Korea." Bill Alexander holds the Democrats responsible for the Korean...
...Between lectures at the University of Chicago Small Businessmen's Seminar, Lemuel R. (for Robert) Crockett slipped into the corridor for a smoke. Thin, dapper Lem Crockett was in caskets-V.P. and general manager of the Evansville (Ind.) Casket Co., Inc. Like most U.S. businessmen and manufacturers, he was worried about Government controls...
...Crockett's colleagues started filing back into the auditorium, so Lem crushed his Fatima on the floor and turned to leave. "Don't worry, son," said he. "We'll take care of those that pass away [a quick bow of the head]. But it's going to be tough...