Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Once in 1911 he tried his hand at composition-a simple air entitled Melody in A Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher for $100. Wrote Banker Dawes in his diary: "I know . . . my punster friends will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones, they are not worth the paper they are written...
...Then will come tryout flights with the 50,000-lb. engine. At some point in this feeling-out process, the X-15 will be turned over to the Air Force. Then Captain Robert A. White, 34, who became the Air Force's choice as test pilot when his friend Captain Iven Kincheloe Jr. was killed in an F-104 this summer, is scheduled to do the first "maximum-performance" testing. Translated from officialese, this means that, if all goes well, Captain White will be the first man to take the X-15 into empty space, and to bring...
...tasting catastrophe, he warned of an "iron half-century" in which everything-"from television to partisanship, from jukeboxes to self-delusion"-must surrender to the "stern requirements of independence and survival." "All is lost." he cried at a 1954 New Year's party to a friend offering him felicitations of the season. In The Reporter's Trade, a collection of Alsop columns-some authored or co-authored by his younger brother Stewart -which will be published Nov. 19, he sinks up to his foulard tie in despond...
...through a ready-made hole in the center of the magazine. Wide-ranging and middle-browed, the first issue opens with a pretentious foreword ("In the beginning was the word"), plods through some humdrum popular singing, purrs with the coquetry of Cinemorsel Brigitte Bardot as she chats about Boy Friend Sacha Distel ("I'm at the end of the world with Sacha"). Sonorama comes close to justifying Editor Claude-Maxe's lofty claims with two superb records of last summer's drama, when France wobbled between chaos and revolution: General Jacques Massu hoarsely bellowing defiance from...
...Author Greene sees it, he is just the kind of man the British Secret Service needs in Havana. The proposition is first put to him in the men's washroom at Sloppy Joe's bar. A worldly friend advises him to take the money and send in false reports. Wormold, who feels he could never be a real secret agent, accepts the advice: he hires imaginary agents, composes false reports, even sends in drawings of vacuum-cleaner parts as diagrams of a devilish weapon being developed in a rebel province of Cuba...