Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing his famous broad-billed cap, perched on a high stool on the flag bridge facing aft ("only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
...spurted. As always, he ran by the clock, not by the competition-the way he set the world indoor mile record (4:06.4) three years ago. He was as graceless as ever; his arms still thrashed like windmills. But at the half-mile his time was 2:00 flat (exactly half of the theoretical four-minute mile) and he was way out front. Could he last? The 13,000 in Boston Garden wondered how much his layoff had hurt his running...
...designing a Palm Springs desert hideaway for Pittsburgh Millionaire Edgar J. Kaufmann, whose famed house in Bear Run, Pa.-designed by Wright-overhangs a waterfall. Compared with Wright's cantilevered castle-in-the-air, Neutra's Kaufmann house will be down to earth, with the low-flying flat roofs, glass walls and furnished terraces of a house turned inside out. To make life as smooth outdoors as in, the four courtyards will have walls and floors piped for summer cooling and winter heating...
...unlike his old one as it could be. The new job: president of the University of Arkansas. Said he: "I'm devoted to Bennington. My wife and I were charter members of the faculty [1932]. But you can't go on having the same experience. You go flat, you go dead. Small colleges are important for experimenting, but I'd like to get into the main stream-public education...
Died. Mac Harris, 92, bearded, cane-twirling ex-slave, idol of famed Beale Street during the South's Reconstruction, onetime "king of gamblers" along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans ; in a shabby flat in Memphis...