Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm...
Hitler v. Ike. ORRadio's founder-and a pioneer in U.S. tapemaking-is John Herbert Orr. 46, onetime radio-station owner. While serving as a major and chief radio engineer on General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff during World War II, Orr, like other radio experts, was amazed at the lifelike quality of Nazi broadcasts of Hitler's speeches. They had none of the distortions of speeches rebroadcast from the wire recorders then used...
Died. Roger Williams Straus, 65, retired (April 1957) board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co., a founder (1928) of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents; of a heart attack; in Liberty...
Power Plant. "Tubby" Clayton did not agree. The Rev. Philip B. Clayton, vicar of All Hallows, chaplain to George VI and to Elizabeth II, is a 71-year-old dynamo with a high-voltage output of devotion, human ingenuity and charm. A World War I chaplain, founder of the British religious organization called Toc H, the organizer of the Winant Volunteers- a U.S. group of college-age boys and girls who pay their way each year to work among the poor in London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter...
...Part. The group that moved into Gorley's Lake Hotel was sent from Paraguay and other centers two years ago, to set up a farming community in North Dakota. "It was very difficult," says bearded Eberhard Arnold, son of the society's founder. "All summer long we had to work so hard we couldn't talk to any of our visitors, and all winter we were snowed in, so that no visitors could come...