Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nomination of Georgia's Senator Richard Russell as a way of registering a protest without walking out. But in the end he decided that the State's Rights Party was the best thing for him. South Carolina was a hot center of revolt and Thurmond had his eye on the Senate seat of Olin D. Johnston for 1950. He probably had more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because he was the most willing and eager. Fielding Wright, 53-year-old lawyer, who is as smooth...
Back in Cambridge, one particularly encouraging note was the absence of injuries. Rocky Stone, who has been out a week, was exercising under the canny eye of Jimmy Cox, and may be ready soon. Jerry Bahn, who broke an arm in pre-season workouts, appeared and began preliminary conditioning work. At the time of his injury Bahn ranked well up in the defensive ends...
...Massachusetts' Gardner Cox is known chiefly for pretty portraits. This time he sent in a painting entitled Cathedral, which appeared to represent a boulder seen through a pane of glass. Complex and painted in dull browns and greys, it was designed not so much to catch the eye as to hold...
Everything that goes into the magazine must have a Gould O.K. They even approve (with a calculating eye on what's really good for women) the little epigrams that bloom back among the ads. A sample blossom...
Last week the plot thickened in the mysterious suicide of Charles B. Porter, Cissy Patterson's onetime treasurer (TIME, Sept. 27). In Manhattan, Roland de Corneille, 21-year-old divinity student, and protégé of Porter, told an eye-popping tale. Porter had been offered a $50,000 bribe, said De Corneille, if he would support a phony $500,000 claim against Cissy's estate. He refused, but had told De Corneille that the bribers were trying to make him change his mind and had "threatened...