Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directed Carpenters Union President Maurice Hutcheson, who inherited the 800,000-member union from his late father, "Big Bill," as a sort of family property, to explain by next November why he refused to answer McClellan Committee questions. Under indictment in Indiana for conspiracy to bribe a state highway official, Hutcheson and other Carpenter officials turned a fast 200% profit by buying right-of-way land for $40,000, selling it to the state a few weeks later for $120,000. Also, in memory of his father, Hutcheson paid a hack writer $310,000 from union funds to write...
...first time in his career he was five minutes late. Otherwise Rayner Goddard, 81, gave no sign that this day in court would be different from any other in his twelve years as Lord Chief Justice of England. With his crimson robe sweeping the ground, his luxuriant wig, as usual, just a trifle askew, he strode into the paneled courtroom one day last week, seated himself in his big leather chair, jotted a note or two with a tiny silver pencil, and after fumbling with his ever-precarious pince-nez motioned for the session to begin. He seemed oblivious...
Last week, ten years after Eduard Benes unhappily yielded Czechoslovakia to Communist control, the late President's nephew, Bohus Benes, became a U.S. citizen. Czech consul general in San Francisco from 1942 to 1948, Bohus Benes is now a part-time lecturer in political science. Coldly straightforward about the significance of his oath to the U.S., he said: "This means that I've given up hope that my country will ever be liberated...
...competition to the starting line by precious seconds, in last week's trial series trailed only once at the opening gun. But many experts still like Columbia, and 51-year-old Skipper Cunningham, with an eye toward the bad weather that often roils New England waters in late September, feels that "heavy weather is Columbia's long suit." He admits his yacht is weakest with the wind astern but adds, "she's a bear cat to windward." And the saying goes that if a boat can go to windward better than the others, she does not have...
...Jacobowsky, gentle, modest, resourceful, wryly philosophical, and also frightened silly because he is a Jewish Polish refugee stranded in Paris as the Wehrmacht plunges toward the city in the late spring of 1940. Cooped up in the same fleabag hotel with him is Colonel Tadeusz Boleslaw Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens), a class-conscious Polish nobleman who lives like the last tassel in the dying lunatic fringe of men dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably...