Word: itches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outbreak of the Korean war, Dowling was back reporting in Chicago, and, says he, "I began to get itchy feet." Dowling's itch coincided with a TIME decision to open a Southeast Asia bureau, and he was hired for that assignment. Setting up a news bureau out there, says Dowling, "was just a matter of finding a place to hang your hat. I picked Singapore principally because the cable facilities were good." As it turned out, Singapore was literally not much more than a place to hang the Dowling hat. "I averaged only about two weeks out of every...
...real big opera." He is quite sure he could resist the distraction of podium and keyboard, , if only because it is harder to,,make flying trips now that the Bernstein menage includes wife, child and governess. The only trouble is, he says, "when you're conducting, you itch to compose, and when you're composing, you itch to conduct...
...Playwright F. Hugh Herbert aims at equaling the smash success of his The Moon Is Blue with A Girl Can Tell, a new comedy about a teen-ager and her mother. George Axelrod, who wrote last season's hit, The Seven-Year Itch, will be back with another comedy called Pffft, which he describes as "the heart-warming chronicle of a happy divorce." Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley is hard at work on a comedy about "sex and laughter" called Satyr's Dance...
Anyone with an Itch. There was a time when sailors were pretty well confined to short stretches of blue water between Bar Harbor, Me. and Palm Beach, Fla. with a few genteel outposts in New Orleans, the Great Lakes and the West Coast. Those were the days when a wealthy gentleman, admiring J. Pierpont Morgan's 302-ft. Corsair, asked him: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" And old J.P. bluntly told him: "You cannot afford it. Anyone who has to ask how much it costs to run a yacht cannot possibly afford to keep...
...among other things, to be outfitted in changes of winter and summer uniforms. Since those days the definition of a yacht† has relaxed. Anyone with the price of an 8-ft. kit boat (under $40) can become a yacht owner; anyone with an itch to get out into a boat can be a yachtsman. Last week an estimated half million or so of them were sluicing along under sail, while another 4,300,000 owners of power boats of one kind or another ("stinkpots" to sailors) were chugging up & down U.S. waterways, happily laying down fumes of exhaust...