Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fitzgerald angrily insisted his $15,750 was a legal fee, said he had worked hard for it, but admitted that he neglected to notice when the loan was made that the real-estate firm had more liabilities than assets. Informed that the shaky company has stopped building houses on the property, and the Teamsters are foreclosing their loan, John McClellan did rapid arithmetic, reckoned the welfare fund was out $700,000. Seemingly unconcerned, George Fitzgerald rosily predicted the land would make a handsome profit, despite the fact that the State Health Department refuses to approve its water facilities. The hearing...
...last visited Task Force 77 a year ago. Not only were her pilots flying within jet-age spitting distance of Red Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...
Most unfortunate feature of the moon's climate is its airlessness, which will always be hard on humans who try to colonize the moon. Last week Dr. Peter A. Cas-truccio, director of Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s newly formed Astronautics Institute, pointed out one way to turn the moon's lack of atmosphere into an asset. Manufacturers of electronic tubes, he said, go to pains to pump air out of them so that the air will not interfere with the electrons. On the moon this is not necessary. The whole moon has a better vacuum than...
Older citizens, if they search their memories hard, can still remember when Elizabeth Taylor appeared opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home, was seen around Hollywood playing with rabbits and turtles, and wrote a story about a pet chipmunk entitled Nibbles and Me. Ah, youth! Today every movie fan from Pomona to Pago Pago knows that when Elizabeth Taylor nibbles, it isn't chipmunks. And so when Liz got involved with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major...
...usual definition, the nation's newest magazine is no magazine at all. It has a hard vermilion cover, 48 color pictures, and not even a breath of an ad. Setting for itself the boundless task of scanning all the arts, book-priced ($3.95 in bookstores), Horizon is lavish, brash, wide-ranging...