Word: demonism
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...bread-and-butter items and decided to make longer, lower time payments. The budget ax in this case fell on the aircraft industry. The Navy announced that it will stretch out the procurement of three jet fighters-Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader, McDonnell's F3H Demon, Douglas' A4D Skyhawk. United Aircraft Corp. reported that its work on a nuclear-plane engine would be "drastically reduced," or scrapped altogether. And the Defense Department announced that it will trim progress payments on unfinished aircraft from 75% of the cost to 70%, forcing plane makers to find more financing...
...movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with writing." For a young writer, Faulkner kept saying, the only thing that matters is a craving to write: "The writer's got to be demon-ridden, to have the demon drive, to express the breadth, beauty, injustice and compassion of life...
Five and Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, one of the future's richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits...
...good-sized batch of local stars whose talents raised them above purely local acclaim. The standouts made up an odd package of assorted shapes and sizes. Some of them: demon with an uncanny knack for hitting the hoop. Hampered by a so-so team, Chet manages to shake loose an average 29 points a game with set shots from outside, or driving lay-ups. All season he has been right up among the leaders for national scoring honors, and despite...
...calls are outlawed under General Manager Rudolf Bing), the critical crowd had capitulated. The customary cliches about musical battles did not apply; she did not "sing like an angel." and she did not "sing her way into the audience's heart." She sang if anything like a fascinating demon, and hers was a far more turbulent appeal than a mere sentimental coaxing of the heart. She pierced listeners with the most exciting operatic voice, the most compelling operatic presence, of her generation...