Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening ceremonies in Annapolis, paraded up lower Broadway, felt salty planks under foot again aboard a dozen Atlantic Fleet vessels tied up at local piers. Senior officer present: Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 74, now leading a land battle to save the fabled carrier Enterprise from the scrap heap. Among the other World War II brass on hand: Admiral Richard L ("Close-In") Conolly, 65, a past master at firing his 16-inchers into the whites of their eyes on enemy-held beaches; Leatherneck General Gerald C. Thomas, 62. mastermind of the prime invasive 1st Marihe Division on Guadalcanal...
...Jinx McCrary have learned the ABCs of interviewing. In their latest inquisition, a five-a-week daytime TV show called Close-Up, they have overextended themselves, and the result is a sort of compost: a pinch of Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life and a watered-down heap of Mike Wallace's Night Beat (which McCrary says is "a carbon copy of one of my old shows"). Last week the McCrarys snagged a performer who had turned Wallace down cold: Negro Singer Eartha Kitt. Eartha talked charmingly about such things as doing "primitive dances" with James Dean...
While the primrose path for their heroines leads inevitably to disaster and thence to New Understanding, the passion pulps themselves are making a heap of tin out of sin. In the last ten years, while the magazine ranks have been riddled by casualties, only two confessional slicks have gone under. Though their combined circulation has fallen to only half the Korean war peak, the fall-off has stopped and today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love...
...Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House to help heap on the honors. Praising Hall for showing a political newcomer how to avoid mistakes. President Eisenhower said: "If Leonard Hall runs for governor of New York, he is going to have one booster here in Washington. He has never even told me whether he wants...
...affairs in his Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...