Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest: 35-in. bust, ditto hips, 25-in. waist, 5 ft. 8½ in. height, 114 lb. Eleanor Roosevelt modeled again, this time a two-piece wool suit-dress in Eleanor blue. She sat in it, found it didn't ride up, pronounced it good. Her newest feat: she popped out of sight of reporters, changed into the new dress, popped back again in three minutes flat...
...stories are all worth reading. Top honors go equally to Curtis Thomas's "Ascent" and Doug Woolf's "The Knifeman." Both are compact, sensitively chiselled pieces of work, relaying on restraint and carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...
...courage, discipline and with the luck of calm weather, the U.S. Navy had performed a feat at sea. Last week it told the story: how it had rescued some 1,600 men from one of the sea's worst perils, a burning ship far from port, without losing a life...
Luckily TIME'S early readers were much less bearish. For instance, within a month of the first issue, Charter Subscriber Thomas W. Lamont told his friends that TIME was "a brilliant feat." Colonel House said the infant magazine "filled a long-felt need." Bernard M. Baruch proclaimed TIME "the best condensation I have seen...
...broken prison monotony. The Germans, with great ceremony, paid tribute to one of their own prisoners, Lieut. Commander Stephen Haider Beattie. Through the Red Cross notification had come of the award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before the British withdrew, Beattie and a number of other...