Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evanston, Ill...
...bottleneck was at the Alton (Ill.) lock, just below the point where the Illinois River, fed in part from Lake Michigan by way of the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their...
...looked glum, kept mum. A little less reticent was one of her most dashing recent escorts, handsome Investment Scion Anthony Nutting, 36, separated from his wife (last June) and from his No. 2 spot in Britain's Foreign Office (last month) in protest against Anthony Eden's ill-starred Suez adventure. About to leave London at week's end for the U.S., where he will author six articles on the world scene for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Tony Nutting was asked if he plans to drop in on the ex-Mrs. Vanderbilt. Replied he: "Well...
Only one detail was amiss: the show's plot was obvious. From the start it was clear that John George Diefenbaker, 61, of Prince Albert, Sask. would be elected leader of Canada's major opposition party. Ever since George Drew resigned because of ill health. Diefenbaker had been the front runner to replace him (TIME, Oct. 1). Diefenbaker did not campaign for the job and refused to ask a single delegate to vote for him. But support piled up steadily and weeks before the convention opened, there was little doubt that Lawyer Diefenbaker would win on the first...
...Ill lay: normally spry (at 82) Massachusetts Politico James M. Curley, in Boston after breaking both shoulders in two falls within thrfee days; luscious Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, in Manhattan after an emergency operation for a crushed spinal disk; Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, 70, discharged after a brief visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital after recovering from a mild urinary tract infection; Wrest Virginia's aged (82) Democratic Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar...