Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decathlon made Jim Thorpe the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull. It won Glenn Morris a job playing Tarzan in the movies. It turned Bob Mathias, a 17-year-old high-schooler, into a national hero, and it earned a college education for a Negro lad named Rafer Johnson whose family were so poor that they lived in a boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints...
Change is a delight in the middle years. Columnist Art Buchwald, 40, pulled up stakes in Paris as the celebrity's celebrity, relocated himself in Washington, D.C., and mined it for satire. Astronaut John Glenn, 45, is a vice president of Royal Crown Cola. Sometimes the change is an allout risk. Maxwell Wihnyk, 54, was running a mildly profitable newspaper in Beaumont, Calif., five years ago, but there was no joy in it. With a wife and three dependent children, he decided to go to law school. Says he: "You can scare the hell out of yourself living...
...absolutely a ball-we laughed until we ached." There it was, another daredevil adventure by the U.S.'s most publicly athletic family. With 14 assorted youngsters in tow, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, Astronaut John Glenn and a platoon of guides piled into World War II rubber landing craft and shot nearly 100 miles of boiling rapids in the Middle Fork of Idaho's Salmon River. It is known as "the River of No Return," and the poor guides thought that was for sure. The place is full of dangerous rocks and swirling eddies; so naturally every time...
British Author-Physicist C. P. Snow; John Walker, Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington; Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; Henry Ford II. While, in its beginning days in book publishing, Time Inc. brought out volumes that were in large measure derived from articles that had appeared in the magazines, the texts and nearly all of the photographs in all TIME-LIFE BOOKS titles...
...essence of heroism is singularity. Lindbergh is perhaps the greatest of all American heroes, a machine-borne Icarus who did not fall. The astronauts are his heirs and yet they are already submerged in team heroism. First there was Alan Shepard, who was succeeded by the engaging John Glenn, and then Edward White was the first American to walk in space, and then ... By now few people can remember all the names. But the astronaut remains truly heroic as a composite figure...