Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
Last week this intramural argument was finally resolved; Nielsen bought Hooper's network reporting services for an estimated $600,000. Now top dog in the national radio field, Tabulator Nielsen expects to fulfill all Hooper's old network contracts with his own twice-monthly rating report. Said he jubilantly: "Radio was being short-changed by a system that measured only urban areas. But we'll soon bring order out of chaos...
...hunting dogs and their weather-beaten owners and trainers, the center of the universe is the sleepy village of Grand Junction (pop. 750), Tenn. The National Field Trial Championship, World Series of U.S. bird-dog competition, has been held there for 52 years at Ames Plantation - a 27,000-acre expanse of quail-rustled sedge and woodland with a great ante-bellum mansion, rows of hospital-clean kennels and stables floored in handmade bricks...
...their written English-language news. TIME and LIFE International, in limited quantity, are the only American magazines circulating in Indonesia, and our distributors have long waiting lists of people who want to be put on for copies. There is a busy black market in foreign periodicals, on which dog-eared old copies of TIME and LIFE International sell for as much as four guilders ($1.04) a copy...
...Duke of Windsor, wearing a checkered topcoat, stooped to pet a Cuban Chihuahua while visiting the battleship Texas at Houston. The dog bit the Duke. "I think it must have been the coat," said the victim. "It's a bit noisy, you know." Later the Duke and Duchess stole the show at New Orleans' Mardi gras, especially at the carnival when the Duke bowed low and the Duchess curtsied to the floor (see cut) before King Rex and his Queen...