Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret police (TIME, June 9), the other ministers are virtually his prisoners. Last week, the A.P.'s Daniel De Luce interviewed this successful Communist statesman. De Luce reported that Rakosi "is full of belly laughs, looks as short and tubby as Fiorello LaGuardia, cracks out commentaries faster than Walter Winchell...
...according to Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Oxford University, an authority on longevity, more & more people are crowding the Canadian's record. Dr. Korenchevsky, reporting last week on a census of Britain's centenarians (oldest: 112), found that, percentagewise, the number of people over 100 is rising faster than the population. Between 1938 and 1945 Britain had 873 centenarians, a gain of 145 over the preceding eight-year period. Women now outnumber male centenarians five...
Strange reports had come from the workouts at Belmont Park. The bred-in-Argentina halfbrothers, Endeavor II and Ensueno, were being ridden without saddles, their peon exercise boys astride nothing more comforting than white sheets. Clockers and rival trainers were impressed: those dark bays were moving faster in their morning trials than many good horses travel during their afternoon races...
...first anniversary of the loan this week, Britain had spent 60% ($2.2 billion) of its $3.75 billion credit from the U.S. The money had gone far faster than anyone expected when the loan was negotiated. One reason was that, since then, U.S. wholesale commodity prices had risen about...
...friend told him that pianos sold faster in Texas than anywhere in the U.S. So chunky Max Reiter hopped a bus for Texas. He had run out of money by the time he hit Waco, Tex. (pop. 56,000), but he had a letter addressed to two sisters who ran a china shop. To them he pleaded: "Just one concert let me give." They helped dig up money and musicians. Four weeks later Max Reiter conducted his first U.S. performance, with a makeshift Waco Symphony. San Antonio heard about it and invited him to form an orchestra there...