Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks, Ira Cain, 42-year-old military editor of Amon Carter's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had been working to get a beat. He hoped to report the maiden flight at Fort Worth of Consolidated Vultee's big, new YB-60, the jet version of the B-36 bomber...
Camera Chase. To learn the new job, some newspaper-owned stations, such as the New York Daily News's WPIX, the Chicago Tribime's WGN-TV and the Fort Worth Star-Tele gram's WBAP-TV, have set up separate TV desks, with a staff of newsmen and newsreel and TV cameramen. Even with all that, covering live spot news is often impossible. For example, when a freight plane crashed in Jamaica, N.Y. two weeks ago (TIME, April 14), a WPIX camera crew found it could not send on-the-spot broadcasts, though it was only...
...raining heavily as the C46 Curtiss Commando snored down through the morning overcast over Long Island and headed for New York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
...previous weekend, Lee finished fourth in the N.C.A.A. tournament held at Fort Collins, Colorado. He lost his semi-final bout to Bill Borders, of Oklahoma University, who was adjudged the outstanding wrestler of the meet. In the consolation match for third place. Lee lost to Illinois' Lou Kachiroubas, N.C.A.A. champ...