Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British teen-agers have taken to the window dressing fervently enough to buy a total of 1,140,000 records the five have made, including more than a million by the Presley of the group, gangling, 19-year-old Marty Wilde. Two years ago, Wilde was just plain Cockney Reg Smith, plunking away for $1.40 a night in a London club. Parnes, a onetime dress-shop owner who had hopped on the bandwagon with top British Rocker Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957), picked up Smith and gave him his new name. Parnes is as mystical as a horse breeder...
...incident revealed that1) the U.S. had prudently installed a system to check incoming travelers for radioactive material; 2) nuclear bomb tests have left enough radioactive debris in the atmosphere to contaminate high-flying planes. Pan Am's 707 had been flying at about 35,000 ft., and the radioactive particles had stuck to oily outside surfaces; when the mechanics checked the aircraft, their gloves and clothes picked up a charge...
Radioactivity has been found before on Air Force jets, the Atomic Energy Commission admitted, but this was the first time that a commercial jet had been involved. The amount of contamination was not considered large enough to present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to it for long periods while servicing the plane. Though the Public Health Service had not yet decided what precautions should be taken, Pan Am washed down the rest of its jets, may institute a system of spot checking jet flights for any trace of radioactivity...
Winning by Phone. The Journal began to worry after it got a tip that the next prizewinner would be a chiropractor's wife. Sure enough. Mrs. Josephine Hill, a Portland chiropractor's wife, won $2,600, and finally told how she did it. Approached by a friend. Mrs. Hill agreed to have an entry submitted in her name-she did not even have to make it out. When it won. she banked $300 of the take and. as agreed, surrendered $2.300 to the friend-who turned it over to the fixer after subtracting $150 as an arranger...
...Robert Alvich, 53, a hotel desk clerk. A chronic puzzle contestant. Alvich bit on an anonymous telephone caller's proposal to make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly set up to win $1,700 from the Oregonian, had also sent the lion's share...