Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME . . . really hit the nail square on the head in its description of Mayor Fletcher Bowron. He is all you say he is, and not much more...
After reading the article on Carl Strandlund and the Lustron home [TIME, July 4], I would say that Preston Tucker hadn't used his head in financing his auto company. Tucker apparently squandered about $28 million belonging to various private individuals and he has the Government and half the newspapers and magazines in the country on his neck. Carl Strandlund "has spent" $32.5 million in a period of about two years, apparently needs $3,000,000 more, is all set to spend another $1,000,000 a month...
...have appeared as guests on the eleven episodes that have been telecast and have talked briefly about the war, the postwar world, General Eisenhower, and Crusade itself. To date, they have included: General George C. Marshall, General Omar Bradley, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Lucius D. Clay, ECA head Paul G. Hoffman, Lieut. General James Doolittle, General Mark Clark. Another guest speaker was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who said, in part...
Casey Stengel was floating on a fleecy cloud. In his managerial cubbyhole at Yankee Stadium, Casey reclined dreamily upon a sofa, his short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of the words. Last week, at the season's halfway mark, his New York Yankees were leading the American League by six games...
...buffs, known as "hop-ups," strip the bodies from junkyard cars, replace them with low-slung, homemade roadster bodies. On the engine they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts, they have a racer that will turn up 140 h.p., capable of speeds over 100 miles per hour. They have been clocked at better than 140 m.p.h. at the Southern California Timing Association's Muroc Dry Lake track, a center of U.S. "hot-rod" racing...