Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he swept the short dash events at the 1956 Olympic Games, 23-year-old Bobby Morrow, late of Texas' Abilene Christian College, has been recognized as the world's No. 1 sprinter. But this year Morrow has won occasionally but lost often-not because he is running any slower but because a new crop of sprinters has appeared to make a wholesale onslaught on the 9.3-sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. So far this year three of Morrow's challengers-Bill Woodhouse, Ray Norton and Roscoe Cook-have equaled the world record...
...first time. The Marine Corps got an all-academy class of 65 men from other services, including seven West Pointers, who were the first to become marines upon graduation since the early 19th century. The Army gave 43 more graduates to the Air Force. The Air Force lost one man to the Marines, sent most of its new 2nd lieutenants (all qualified navigators) on to pilot training. Swapping hit the Navy hardest: 57 Annapolis graduates (including the No. 1 man) chose the Marines. 83 the Air Force, six the Army. As 10,000 Annapolis spectators laughed, the Army...
...book has 96 pages and 47 chapters, but more than half the space is blank. Chapter 47 is titled "Lord Chesterfield's Last Letter to His Son," and consists entirely of this message: "Dear Junior-Get lost-Dad." But as book stores closed last week, 42,500 copies had been sold, and Jack Douglas' My Brother Was an Only Child (Dutton; $2.50) made the bestseller lists for the ninth straight week...
...Hotel Plaza, Lisa was getting away with it well enough to pack the house twice a night. Supplied with special material by Writer-Husband Bob Wells (a co-producer of Dinah Shore's TV show last season), Lisa presents the most elaborate nightclub act since Mae West lost Mickey Hargitay and his bar bells to Jayne Mansfield...
...Misfortunes of Simone continued when, after World War I, her father lost his money. At the university. Simone strove so relentlessly for her doctorate that she earned her famed nickname. "Beaver." All work and little play did not dull the beaver's tooth for philosophic talk, but the meaning of her own existence seemed empty. Three relationships of the university years gradually opened Simone's eyes to herself. There was her cousin Jacques in whom she saw only a romantic image, although he actually carried on a series of sordid liaisons, finally married for money and died...