Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snickers & Shudders. Today Osborn lives on a Connecticut farm, relaxed and happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in the preface to Low & Inside, "is about the steady plight of man; the anarchy of his laughter and the terrifying lawfulness of his tragedies." Whether readers should snicker or shudder at his insane world, even Osborn doesn't know. "Humor is a funny business," says...
...First three after deducting commissions: TIME Inc., whose gross in 1952 was $156 million; Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Holiday, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), an estimated $140 million; Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's), $68 million...
Jelke's trial had provided a Roman holiday of rare proportions for New York's tabloids. Though newsmen were barred from the court during the two weeks in which the prosecution presented its case, they had little difficulty in digging up daily accounts of glittering vice, café-society style (TIME, Feb. 23). In its final week (after reporters had been admitted to the court), the trial took on the throbbing dramatic tones of a soap opera. Mickey's Social Registered mother, stately Mrs. Ralph Teal, unhappily admitted that a number of her son's sinful...
...Good Race. The company was founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse, who invented the railroad air brake, proved the usefulness of alternating current, was first to introduce the Saturday half-holiday to U.S. Industry, and ran the company until it failed in the panic of 1907. After a succession of bosses, in 1929, Robertson took command. He nursed it through depression quivers and launched it into vigorous World War II growth...
...plane made a routine landing at Tampa and took off again at 4:40 with 41 passengers-many of them holiday travelers bound for the Mardi Gras. It was due in New Orleans at 5:45 C.S.T., but Flight 470 was never completed. Captain Springer's last radio report, at 5:12, gave no hint of danger. After that, attempts to get in touch with the plane were answered only by a silence-silence and the howl of sudden heavy winds which battered the shore line hard enough to tear off roofs at Grand Isle...