Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adults plant a child's garden of verse. Juvenile satire nourishes it. What British children did to The Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...
...long been "expecting the development of science near the sun." Wrote Morrison and Cocconi : "We shall assume that long ago they established a channel of communication that would one day become known to us, and that they look forward patiently to the answering signals from the sun which would make known to them that a new society has entered the community of intelligence...
Happily married, and with an art teaching job to make ends meet, Florsheim still felt and painted misery. His black works found few buyers; he did not mind. "You wouldn't expect someone two years out of college to be made president of General Motors, because you know he wouldn't have the mature experience. Yet we expect this of painters. But it is much harder to be a good painter than president of General Motors.'' Slowly, out of the gloom in Florsheim's studio, more positive and colorful pictures began emerging...
...week's end, Alleghany Chairman Kirby was trying to make up his mind whether to fight to keep control or not. He owns 524,000 shares of Alleghany common, about 10%, also holds 148,000 shares of 6% convertible preferred and warrants for another 226,440 shares of common. If he converts his preferred and exercises his warrants, he will have close to 1,450,000 shares of common to Sonnabend's 700,000 shares-and the common elects five of the nine directors...
...testimony to the ruggedness of the small cars, there were no mechanical breakdowns. But the race was hard on the standard tires, particularly those on Chevy's five Corvairs, which had to slow down to make sure that they would finish. At the final flag, American Motors' Rambler was out in front averaging 55.5 m.p.h., with a Volkswagen second. A pair of Ford Falcons drove off with third and fourth, and two Corvairs had to settle for sixth and seventh...