Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rodders and last fall's normal quota of noisy football parties, U.S. youth had been relatively quiet ever since college pantie raids ran their nylon-pennoned course last spring. But last week the volcanic nature of the young erupted in two curious tribal gatherings-one at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the other at Balboa, Calif.-as thousands of students, freed from their books by Easter vacations, swarmed seal-like to the two towns' beaches to swim, fight, drink, woo, bask in the sun and howl at the southern moon...
Compatibility. In Fort Scott, Kans., Robert Locke and Beverly Key took out a marriage license. In Miami, Elizabeth Coffin announced her engagement to Lloyd Graves...
...parade grounds at Washington's Fort McNair last week, with ruffles & flourishes, a 17-gun salute and a review of the troops, the U.S. Army marked the retirement of General James Alward Van Fleet, But Old Soldier Van Fleet 61, on the inactive list after 38 years of service including 22 months as Eighth Army commander in Korea, was not yet ready to fade away. The morning after the ceremonies, he went back to the Capitol Hill firing line and expanded on his earlier testimony (TIME, March 16 et seg.) about the Eighth Army's "serious shortage...
...next 40 weeks or so, Ted Lewis will be asking if everybody is happy in the cities which welcome him back year after year: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and a dozen places in between. He will travel with his own troupe of eleven musicians, a magician, and assorted singers and dancers, and will net himself around $8,000 a week. But everywhere he goes, 61-year-old Ted Lewis will be able to warm up his listeners with reminiscences of the barnstorming days before the going was so good-being booked...
...Tribune gave its readers only a small test sample of the changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...