Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I saw the tiger behind De Sapio on the cover, I thought it looked familiar to me, so I put on my reading glasses, and, sure enough, there were the words "after Th. Nast." To say I was pleased is an understatement, because Thomas Nast was my father. I am nearly 76 years young...
...usual in such cases, the U.N. mediator, Canada's Major General Edson L. M. Burns, respected as much for his toughness as for his patience, tried to get both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once...
SOME of us who have been around TIME for a good while sat in the control room of an American Broadcasting Co. radio studio recently, waiting to hear a familiar voice. When it came out of the control-room loudspeaker, the voice was still as sonorous and commanding as ever. It immediately recalled memories and stories of early TIME ventures into radio: the 1924 show, called Pop Question, conducted by the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; NewsCasts in 1928 and NewsActing in 1929, both started by TIME'S President Roy Larsen, then TIME'S circulation manager...
Today's jazz reflects the American scene, the hopes, dreams and frustrations of our generation . . . Our primary aim [is] not to play a standard, familiar piece but to convey a mood, a feeling which flows back and forth from the guy on the stand to the guy in the front row and the rows behind him. Do you catch...
Peter Kane Jr., 45, is a familiar figure around Honolulu. For the past 14 years he has been a saxophone player in the municipal Royal Hawaiian Band, and in his gleaming white uniform he is a sight to see as the band goes marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the fattest member of the band. Last year, after a vacation and a carefree feast of poi,* Peter waddled back to band practice fatter than ever. He measured 5 ft. 7 in. vertically, 4 ft. 8 in. around the middle, and tipped the freight scales at 355 glorious pounds. Eying...