Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
...charmed a pretty brunette French teacher and accomplished skier named Collette Thomas into marriage. They lived in "a series of ghastly, sordid rooms and flats," while he scrabbled up the drawing-room-comedy ladder. Then in 1936 he made his Broadway debut in Sweet Aloes and hit the top. Back in London he starred in French Without Tears, Design for Living, No Time for Comedy. Then, to "get a bit of money," Harrison temporarily left the stage for movies (a medium he dislikes), met George Bernard Shaw himself in the course of making Major Barbara...
...After two bad seasons plagued by assorted arm ailments, the Boston Red Sox's aging (34) Southpaw Mel Parnell demonstrated that he is no longer on the way back but has arrived. Parnell stopped the White Sox 4-0, pitched the first American League no-hit game since Bobo Holloman and the St. Louis Browns beat the Philadelphia Athletics...
...turned out, 44-passenger, 335-m.p.h. Viscounts were a hit from the start. With big picture windows, less noise and vibration than piston-engined planes, the Viscounts operated up to 85% of full load for the first few months, have averaged 70% in their first full year v. an average 64% load factor for the rest of the industry. Replacing Lockheed Constellations with Viscounts on the Chicago-Washington run, Capital tripled its business, carried 33,802 passengers from February through May 1956 v. 11,322 passengers during the same period of 1955. Traffic on the New York-Pittsburgh...
...King and I. A lavish and bouncy musical version in CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit. expertly played by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...