Word: idlewild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swelling civic pride. Even people who didn't care to ride in planes enjoyed watching them land and reflecting that their city had not been bypassed by the air age. Greater New York was no exception; it was as proud of those raucous, air-age beehives, La Guardia, Idlewild and Newark Airports, as of the sight of the Queen Mary sliding majestically up the Hudson...
...that the airport be closed permanently. Real-estate values in the city dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
Looking fresh and relaxed after a two-month vacation in Europe, Author Thomas Mann and his wife Katja arrived at New York's Idlewild airport on their way home to Santa Monica and back to work on another book. This one, said Mann, will be the story of an artistic criminal and entitled The Confessions of Felix Krull...
Clutching the hand of her father Dr. Peter Lindstrom as they stepped off the plane at New York's Idlewild Airport, little Pia (Jenny Ann) once again faced a group of curious reporters. Could she tell them about the meeting with her mother Ingrid Bergman? "Please, she's only twelve," said her father, and proceeded to answer the questions himself. She had spent eight days with her mother in London; he had had a "cordial" meeting with...
...York, Operator von Rekowsky (a lithographer when he is not at his set) got busy. A wholesale drug supplier furnished a single vial of Varidase; it was hustled to Idlewild airport. Within six hours of the message from Oporto, the vial was on its way to London on an Israeli airlines plane; within a few more hours, a BOAC airliner set it down in Lisbon. Father Santos was waiting, hurried home with the vial in a Portuguese military plane...