Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth of Triangle Publications' Seventeen five years ago, Helen Lachman Valentine, a lively, bright-eyed grandmother, has been its editor-in-chief. She liked to call it "my baby," and mothered not only the money-making teenagers' monthly (circ. 1,012,998) but the 50 girls and lone man on its editorial staff. One afternoon last week, 56-year-old Editor Valentine called her brood into her neat chartreuse-and-green Manhattan office. "Seventeen has grown up," said Mrs. Valentine with a catch in her voice. "It's a big girl now . . ." Like a mother...
Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...
...Atomic Age has also reached the cereal box. A while back, one brand in cahoots with the Lone Ranger, came out with an "Atomic Energy Ring." Built in the shape of a torpedo, the ring was "guaranteed to contain genuine atoms," and, in a reassuring Note to Parents, it was further guaranteed that "the atomic energy contained in this ring is absolutely harmless...
...many of his fellow citizens grudgingly envy him his wealth and audacity. As many more deprecate him, and point out, correctly, that he is hardly typical of the Texas millionaire (see box). Nevertheless, Glenn McCarthy is as peculiarly a product of Texas as the famed San Jacinto monument; the Lone Star State is one of the few places left in the world where millionaires hatch seasonally, like May flies...
...designed to reduce spectators to mild hysteria. Harvard opened the scoring almost immediately as Bill Garrity took a goal mouth pass from Carl Timpson and flicked it in. Midway in the opening period, Northeastern took advantage of a Harvard penalty to make a four man rush on the lone defenseman and goalie Chase it was a sure fire scoring play...