Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garage and general store for the nation's ever-increasing yachtsmen. Last week Panama City was about to start work on not one but two big marinas with dock space for 570 boats along its Gulf Coast waterfront and every convenience under the yachtsman's sun: water, ice, electricity and telephone service, gas and repair facilities, a dozen stores, barber and beauty shops, a restaurant, even a nightclub. Estimated cost: $3,500,000. Estimated gross revenue: $1,000,000 annually-to say nothing of the millions yachtsmen will spend outside the marinas...
...East Coast's most complete: Port Washington, L.I.'s Riviera, which turns a healthy profit each year by providing 150 boatowners with all the standard summer-cruising services (water, ice, telephone, etc.), will also repair and store their boats during winter months...
...urged one letter writer last week. Said another: "You are a splendid example of the fact that in order to have free speech we must tolerate its abuse by idiots." In a recent charity appearance before 62,500 people at Soldier Field, Faye fans pelted him with coins, ice cream, paper cups and jeers. Grabbing a microphone, he bellowed: "I want you to know that whatever you think of me I think...
Basic Bestsellers. The cash came early: Fats is only 29. Eleven years ago he was plunking out "back-beat," barrelhouse piano while he sold "snowballs" (shaved ice and flavoring) from a New Orleans streetside stand. By 1949, he played "rhythm and blues"-the record trade's postwar tag for Negro pop music with the beat, but not the brass, of Dixieland. His record, The Fat Man (Imperial), hit for an 800,000-copy sale. In 1955 rhythm and blues got transformed into rock 'n' roll and began to boom; so did Fats...
Probing Mind. In Mexico City, Rafael Duenas tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide by stabbing himself with an ice pick after writing a note: "I killed myself to see what it felt like...