Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herpetology & St. John's. The man who bosses today's jet and missile Air Force was born in Walker, Minn, in 1901-just two years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. His maternal great-grandfather was Charles Dresser, the Episcopal minister who performed the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His father, John Chanler White, an Episcopal minister of Springfield, Ill. and later a bishop, encouraged Tommy to go to church once weekly, to join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake...
Five gets you ten that Packard's satchel-mouthed "Hawk" hits the street under the name of "The Toad...
Edward Weeks, 59, a slim, hawk-nosed New Jerseyite of good schooling (Cornell, Harvard, Cambridge) and filigree style, has been the Atlantic's editor for 19 years, longer than all but his immediate predecessor, the celebrated Ellery Sedgwick. Weeks's Atlantic has had to endure the penalties of lasting into a time when new forms of journalism and communication offer new competition to the printed word as well as many other ways for writers and thinkers to express themselves. But the privately owned monthly (major shareholder: Mrs. Marion D. Strachan of Groton, Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue...
...expensive (up to $12,000) Mercedes-Benz line that it distributes in the U.S., the cars show few mechanical or style changes. Most models are about 2 in. lower, offer a "luxury-level ride" incorporating variable coil springs that automatically adjust to road conditions. One new car: a Packard "Hawk" sports car to match Studeba-ker's Hawk series, with...
...always does, the mere thought of a crise de régime turned the talk to the ever-ready strongman, General de Gaulle. By the sheerest coincidence, the hawk-nosed wartime leader, now 66, chose last week to make one of his periodic excursions to Paris. Typically, De Gaulle's utterances had a Delphic quality. Said he: "You tell me that the political men of all groups are unanimous in affirming that only De Gaulle can find a solution. But name me one person who has said so in Parliament." Then he added: "I could not make peace...