Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeping up with the travels of TIME'S staff is a round-the-clock job for the transportation experts in TIME'S Travel Bureau. Each month the department buys the transportation and handles all the details for some 1,500 "legs" of trips. A "leg" may be anything from a New York-Washington flight to arranging (at the peak of the tourist season) passage for Correspondent Thomas Dozier and family on a ship from New York to Spain, where he is to take over this month as Madrid bureau chief...
...Rear Window, Director Hitchcock plants his camera on the esthetic handkerchief of a second-floor back room in Greenwich Village, to which a photographer (James Stewart )for one of the big picture magazines is confined with a broken leg. Inside the room the camera moves freely, but whenever it looks out the rear window, it is permitted to see only what the hero...
...cockpit had been sliced off. He struggled to get up, rose, and then was violently sucked at by the screaming wind. The wind smashed against his exposed body, whipped and cut his face, clawed at his "cringing, sight less eyeballs." but did not pull him out, because his right leg was caught in the cockpit. Down plunged the pilot and the plane. Then, under the inhuman pressure, the man's right leg snapped off his body...
Only a Beginning. Luckily for the pilot, Squadron Leader Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, R.A.F., it was an artificial leg. He parachuted to German-occupied France, losing his freedom but not his life. Bader is a square-jawed Englishman with a remarkable past and an even more remarkable spirit. He was only 21 when, in 1931, he suffered his first and most serious accident as an R.A.F. pilot officer. His right leg had to be amputated at the thigh, his left leg below the knee. For many it would have seemed an end. For Douglas Bader, it was only a beginning...
...line. A sympathetic censor had allowed his call to go through, and for the next four hours Rosenhouse dictated his story. "The same censor," said Rosenhouse, "began to help other correspondents, but he got careless. The police caught him, beat him with rubber hoses, shot him in the leg three times and fractured his skull. He is now recovering in the military hospital. When censorship ended, it was hard to believe. Suddenly newsmen could devote some time to reporting instead of waging their own war with the censors." Rosenhouse, a native of Chicago and a graduate of U.C.L.A., was first...