Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling mistily, Herbert Clark Hoover rode into West Branch at the head of a long motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood...
...collapsible, aluminum-frame tent that holds two sleeping bags and can be anchored atop an auto has been developed by Hagen-Felt Corp. of East Orange, N.J. The "CarTop Pullman," which weighs 76 Ibs., folds into a package 10 in. high and 5 ft. long when closed. Open, it is 4 ft. wide, 5 ft. high and 6 ft. 8 in. long. Price...
...investigation was still on, the Air Force had quietly dropped the finish flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...time the field reached Melbourne, it had dwindled to 134. Murray, whose car was rattling along on cracked shock absorbers and a twisted frame, jettisoned half a ton of equipment for the climb across the Australian Alps and home. Wearing rubber monkey masks as a final gag, he and his navigator, Bill Murray (no kin), dawdled through the mountains, stopped now and then to take movies, and rolled into the Sydney show ground last week easy winners. In 17 days on the road they were the only entrants who lost no points...
...artist's work can be fairly appraised by anyone but himself. No other artist, critic, museum curator or layman can temporarily adopt the character, personality, frame of mind and point of view the artist possessed at the time he was painting a particular picture . . . I highly respect the work of Ben Shahn and Willem De Kooning . . . They are both exceptionally capable...