Word: helmsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso once warned a baffled interviewer not to "ask questions of the man at the wheel." People think he is sometimes off his course, but the aging (65) helmsman of modern art presumably knows where he is going. For 40 years he has let others debate his painting for him. The debate was hot as ever last week...
...helmsman, instead of the angry, seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull...
Suddenly one of the crew shouted something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...
Hereford raisers had reason to hope that the mark would be broken again next year. In the closing minutes of the auction, Bob Lazear, manager of the Wyoming Hereford Ranch at Cheyenne, Wyo., received the most fabulous offer yet-$100,000 for W. H. R. Helmsman III, judged top bull of the show. But, income taxes being what they are, Bob Lazear was of no mind to set a record: he turned down the offer. Said he: "I wouldn't know what to do with $100,000, but I know what to do with a bull...
...enlisted helmsman stopped his craft, folded his arms and firmly demanded: "Make up your minds...