Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reform a tired old city. Subsequent progress reports showed New Orleans perking up under a cover of new buildings, bridges and commerce. On the strength of such accomplishments, Morrison last week was nominated for office for a fourth time-and now faces a crucial political decision. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, King of the Crescent City...
...state's first constitutional convention (1819); from Confederate War Secretary Leroy Pope Walker in Huntsville came the 1861 order to fire on Fort Sumter. For years, Madison County was Alabama's top cotton producer (80,000 bales in 1948) and Huntsville, with nine mills, lived on King Cotton. The Depression almost left one-industry Huntsville a ghost town. Says a longtime resident: "If you could stand on the courthouse steps with as much as a dollar in your pocket, you were the richest man in town." Huntsville's big boom began in 1950, when Wernher von Braun...
...battlements of Thebes have for some nights been seeing the ghost of Oedipus' father-The Infernal Machine is most brittle and playful in its long, chatty first scene, where Jocasta (June Havoc), all dolled up for a night out, flirts with young soldiers. But already the ghost of King Laius tries to warn of things to come. When in the next scene a cocky, ambitious Oedipus (John Kerr) appears and infatuates the Sphinx, he does not guess her riddle; she tells him the answer. Again there are warnings, but undeterred Oedipus marries
...fighting general's glory was reaped by his writing son. All the general's humiliations were avenged when the author of Musketeers walked across Paris like a king, carrying mountains of debts on his huge shoulders, fearing nothing, not even death. "She will be kind to me," he said, "because I will tell her a story...
Victorian Space Age. Eerie little spine ticklers of this sort have sold some 2,000,000 copies of 19 books by Britain's Arthur C. (for Charles) Clarke, a science-fiction writer with rare qualifications. Author Clarke holds a first-class honors degree in science from King's College, University of London, served as chairman of the British Interplanetary Society (1950-53), and as early as 1945 he published a pioneering paper on using a space station for radio and television relay. A ten-year sifting of Author Clarke's tales of the space age, The Other...