Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lone sea wolf. The biggest independent line operator in the world, Isbrandtsen has fought governments around the globe in the name of freedom of the seas, has battled fellow shippers to establish free rates. Last week, after a ten-year battle, Isbrandtsen recorded the most important victory in its log book. Ruling in Isbrandtsen's favor, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the rate-setting practices of the international shipping conferences-voluntary groups of U.S. and foreign lines-thus opening the way for a flurry of price-cutting...
...Navy training and lofty motivation, a six-month Antarctic night threw Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd into depression. Airman Donald Farrell, after less than a week of far less severe isolation in a ground-bound cabin (TIME. Feb. 24), became not only irritable but hostile. His log for the seventh morning of his week-long simulated flight to the moon bristles with sputtering four-letter obscenities, includes...
...Republican rural county. Freshman Chuck Chamberlain earlier had sent 100,000 questionnaires on aid, trade and taxes to his Sixth District, had tabulated the 11,000 replies (57% against a tax cut, 35% in favor, 8% undecided). On his first night home in East Lansing, Chamberlain dropped a log on his foot, bruised it badly...
...torch, but every passenger and seaman was in the safety of lifeboats on the calm sea. As long as they were able, the two radio operators sent out SOS signals. The ship's master, Captain Alf Faeste, was the last man off, sliding down a rope with the log book. There was only one casualty: a German businessman died in his lifeboat of a heart attack...
...Christopher Handy, 84, trumpeter, composer of The St. Louis Blues, music publisher, autobiographer (Father of the Blues), who became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...