Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Saris & Co. had received 12,000 letters. Last week ten high schools sent delegations to the U.S. embassy asking that letters be forwarded to Mamie Eisenhower. As the snowball grew, the U.S. Information Agency stepped flatfootedly into the picture. "Stripped of its emotionalism, distortion and heated charges," said the U.S.I.A., "this city's much publicized 'kissing incident' essentially becomes a question of the rehabilitation of two problem boys and their families." It quoted the vice president of the local N.A.A.C.P. as "not certain that the training school is not the best place for the boys...
...trifle weary from her duties as the nation's No.1 hostess, Mamie Eisenhower will start her second two-week tour of arduous, low-caloric duty this month at Maine Chance, the high-priced ($400 to $600 a week) ladies-only rejuvenating ranch in Arizona run by Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden. Although her first session (TIME, March 3) was on the house, this time Mamie will...
...With the high jump bar set at 7 ft., Boston University Freshman John Thomas (TIME, Feb. 2) missed his first attempt but sailed cleanly across on the second try. beating U.S. Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas (first man ever to jump 7 ft.) and smashing his own world's indoor record for the second time in three weeks, at New York's 52nd annual Millrose Games...
...jobs, from dental technician to salesman; his mother was a fashion designer. Like his characters, Feiffer suffered many childhood frustrations. (''Echoes of my childhood keep creeping into my work. I'm sneaky-I hide behind my pictures.") In 1946 he got out of James Monroe High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college. The thought of going back was too much ("What a miserable four years"), and so he went to work as a cartoonist's assistant. Drafted during the Korean war, Feiffer put in two sad-sack years Stateside...
...length. It begins with a somber, gonglike flourish of pines. The long winding advance of the invading army is the main theme, announced by a menacing rush of pennants out of the mist. The peasant at the bridge is a contrasting grace note of peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens...