Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent jeep ride over the narrow new roads that lead part way across the roof of the world, TIME'S New Delhi Correspondent Donald Connery bounced his way to the dot on the map called Sikkim, a never-never land where women sit by the side of the road, breaking big rocks with little hammers, and watch the Mercedes go by. For his report, see FOREIGN NEWS, Land of the Uphill Devils...
Husking the Corn. Their first act includes Green's hilarious version of the early groping talkies: a pompous baritone named "Donald Ronald" who happily mouths "Honeybunch, you drive me frantic with your smiles," but utters only a half-Nelson eddy of sound. After more silent facial farces, Green joins Betty in loudly husking cornier Shubert operettas (The Baroness Bazooka). There is also a Reader's Digest book condensation that scrunches Gone with the Wind into 22 words...
...Married. Donald Campbell, 37, aqua-motive speedster who-in his buglike jet hydroplane Bluebird-has established himself as the fastest man afloat (248.62 m.p.h.), son of the late land-sea Speed Merchant Sir Malcolm Campbell; and Tonia Bern, 28, TV and cabaret entertainer; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. Would Campbell stop risking his life in pursuit of more speed records? Said he: "Don't be daft...
...When Donald William Nyrop was elected president of Northwest Airlines in 1954, he figured that he was in for a rough ride. Northwest had a long history of woes with its planes, pilots, presidents (two chiefs in two years) and with Pan American World Airways, which was lobbying hard to bump Northwest off the lucrative Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run. By last week Don Nyrop, 46, had piloted Northwest through all those storms. In 1958, said Nyrop, the line's operating revenues climbed from $83.4 million to a record $101 million, and profits through November rose...
...Little Priest" in 40-or 45-in. sizes, each $8.95. "Watch," says the ad, "how [children] will assume the quiet dignity of those who have dedicated their lives to the Church." But Christianity's smash commercial success is a song, composed by Disk Jockey George Donald McGraw. 30, of Salem, Va., who got tired of hearing "songs about funny animals, Santa Claus and filter cigarettes" at Christmastime and decided that "everybody was kind of starved for something real sincere." The something Deejay McGraw provided and had sung in unretouched hillbilly by the eight-year-old daughter of a friend...