Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world over. But its punchless articles are scarcely noticed even in Britain. It was not always so: once Punch was as well known for its caustic writing and cartoons on the social and political scene as it was for its humor. Punch shocked the world by printing Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt," a poem that bitterly described the sweatshops of the Industrial Revolution, and during World War I, Punch's attacks on the Kaiser were so pointed that the Germans put a price on the editor's head. Last week Punch took a long step...
...Steel flexed its muscles, it also shifted its high command. At 62, Chairman and President Ben Fairless was ready to turn over some of his duties to a younger man: Executive Vice President Clifford Hood, 58. Hood has had a big hand in planning and building Big Steel's huge expansion, including the $400 million Fairless works (TIME, Nov. 12, 1951), the biggest steel complex ever built at one time. On Jan. 1, he will take over Big Steel's presidency, though Fairless will still be the chief executive officer, bossing policy while Hood bosses operations...
...Lincoln, the Ford Motor Co. last week showed off the most powerful U.S. car on the road. Under its hood the Lincoln has a new 205 h.p. V-8 engine with a new carburetor and kidney-shaped combustion chamber for better air-fuel mixing. With 40 h.p. more than last year's models, Ford claims the Lincoln is one of the fastest stock cars in the world on the getaway. From a standing start, the Lincoln can jump to 60 m.p.h. in twelve seconds, to 80 m.p.h. in 22 seconds (see SPORT...
...fashionable wedding of U.S. Heiress Virginia Fortune Ryan and Britain's Lord Ogilvy (see MILESTONES) was South Pacific Star Mary Martin. The Texas-born wedding guest delighted the fashion-conscious by showing up in a fur coat, a hole-in-the-crown fur headpiece, an ear-warming hood anchored by a pearl choker...
...Story of Robin Hood. Robust version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...