Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, 78, survivor of the White Star liner Titanic, which hit an iceberg in 1912 and sank with 1,500 of the some 2,200 people on board; in Twickenham, England. As the ship's second mate, he told a Senate investigation committee that the luxury liner was making too much speed through a known ice field, but admitted that after the crash he had only half-filled the lifeboats because he didn't believe that the "unsinkable" Titanic was really going under. He stayed on board until the ship reared vertically...
...easily seen. In the bare old dining room on the fourth floor of the Metropolitan Club, with its memories of mustaches and Madeira wine and terrapin Maryland, the unleisurely men of today take only a few minutes off to talk personalities over a hurried meal of Ry-Krisp and iceberg lettuce. There are newsworthy faces at every table. A man speeds up the conversation with his lunch eon partner to get a chance to exchange a word with someone more important who's just shoving back his chair...
...they appeared in print. After reading 29 pages on the Cicero race riot story, whittled to 3½ columns in the magazine, a University of Nebraska student said: "All this is so interesting-why didn't you use the whole thing?" Ecker likened the TIME story to an iceberg, with the small portion seen on the surface supported by the great bulk underneath. With a whole world to cover each week, TIME would quickly overburden its readers by reporting every detail of every story...
...course in twelve months. When his big chance came, he was ready for it: he was an operator in the Marconi wireless station, atop John Wanamaker's Manhattan store, on the night of April 14, 1912, when he picked up a message from the S.S. Titanic: "Ran into iceberg. Sinking fast." For three days & nights, the nation waited breathlessly while Sarnoff, going without sleep, provided its only news of the disaster and survivors. President Taft ordered all other stations off the air to enable Operator Sarnoff to catch the messages...
...Just as we look on a university education as a portal and preparation for life," he continued, "so we ought to view life itself from the perspective of preparing us for something after death. Man is like an iceberg; the larger, invisible part is more important that that which is visible...