Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spice up the evening appearances of youngish (50) Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich at a plush London nightclub, the resourceful management hit on the idea of dragging in a celebrity at each show to introduce Grandma Marlene. Last week's hit curtain-raiser was Liverpool's burly (208 Ibs.), two-hourglass-figured (50 in., 40 in., 50 in.) Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced...
...Office Tonic. Surprise hit of the festival was the nine-member Bach Aria Group from the U.S., organized nine years ago by Oil Heir William H. Scheide, a onetime music teacher at Cornell University. Bach Specialist Scheide, who has long maintained that the cantatas are the heart of Bach's work, figured out that about half of the cantatas' 650-odd arias could be performed by combinations of five instruments and four voices. To prove it, he assembled the aria group, made the discovery, to everyone's surprise that Bach vocal music was a tonic...
Trouble Ahead? How high will the market go? Last week it was possible to get all shades of opinion on Wall Street. One broker even predicted that the Dow-Jones industrials would hit 1,000. But some brokers lifted warning fingers. Stock prices have been going up so high and so fast that dividend rates have not been keeping pace. Traditionally, brokers start to worry when yields of stocks and bonds get close. They fear that many investors, discouraged by comparatively low stock yields will start shifting from stocks to safer bonds, possibly touching off a major decline in stock...
...aircraft plant in southern France last week, production was being stepped up on a trim, twin-jet plane with a graceful butterfly tail. The plane was France's Magister, a light, two-place trainer (made by Etablissements Fouga) that can hit 450 m.p.h., perform most of the maneuvers of heavier, more expensive combat cratt. The French air force has ordered 100 of the new Magisters; last week the hard-to-please NATO training committee was also recommending the plane to West Germany and other NATO nations as the standard basic trainer for fledgling jet pilots...
...even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already passed Mach 1 in a climb, is expected to hit Mach 2 (1,520 m.p.h. at sea level...