Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sake, Captain Charles R. Pilcher of the liner Rangitoto offered to lower a lifeboat when he learned that a passenger, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, wanted to go ashore in Panama and planned to leave the ship via the jouncing boarding ladder. The sure-footed prelate declined the lifeboat, and when he learned that the captain was partially worried about the ship's safety record, dashed off a limerick for the occasion...
...beaten the odds by breaking even, Red, White and Blue would have been just another lackluster revue. But it lost at least $600,000, and thereby achieved a certain distinction. Except for 1926's The Ladder, which a free-spending angel kept running through two Broadway seasons in a nearly empty theater, Red, White and Blue was the costliest flop in U.S. theatrical history...
Conductor Alessandro's new job puts him a rung up the ladder as U.S. conductorships go (he will have $320,000 to spend on San Antonio's symphony and opera seasons, as compared to $157,000 at Oklahoma City). Says Alessandro: "There comes a time in a musical career when a change is best. You never know when this will bethere are no Drew Pearsons in the musical world. But it is best for the orchestra as well as the conductor...
Twice Shy. Charlie Wilson, 64, a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, no-nonsense kind of businessman, had come through a boyhood in Manhattan's slums, started at the bottom of General Electric's ladder as an office boy and made his way to its $275,000-a-year top. Thanks to two famous Washington scraps of World War II, he knew a governmental hot potato before he caught...
...still considers himself "only a mechanic." When he came to Rolls 42 years ago, fresh from secondary school and an apprenticeship in a machine shop, Hives was put to work at a bench in the Rolls plant. He showed such a talent for engineering that he quickly climbed the ladder to become head of Rolls's auto and air experimental station, later chief experimental engineer. Always one for seeing projects through from drafting board to trial run, Hives tested new engines by driving them in racing cars. During World War II, as Rolls's managing director, he supervised...