Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characterized as "slavery" and a violation of the antitrust laws. Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler seemed satisfied that the shadow had lifted for the time being. "I'm so happy about it," said Chandler, "I'd go out and get drunk, if I were a drinking man...
Such "catastrophic" explanations of the solar system made fair sense scientifically, and got grateful support from nonscientific people who preferred to believe that man and his earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe ;o produce a planetary system, there is a good chance that man's earth may be the only chunk of matter with proper conditions for life to develop...
Kuiper is a serious astronomer who holds himself loftily above the little vanities of man. But his theory, which requires no rare catastrophe for the formation of planets, makes it much less likely that man is alone in the universe. The sun is an ordinary star, of very common size, temperature and chemical composition. If it has acquired planets in the normal course of its development, many millions of similar stars may have planets too. If so, there is a chance that high forms of life, perhaps higher than man, have developed on some of them...
Later, in a hospital, 20-year-old Gayle Keen angrily told another reporter: "I was lying there in the wreckage when I saw a man approaching, and I thought: 'Thank God, here is help at last.' Instead, he just leveled a camera at me, and bang! then he was gone." Presbrey's exclusive picture (see cut) made the front page of the Star and went all over the country by wirephoto. Hard-boiled Reporter Presbrey sent the girl a print of the picture and a message: "I'm sorry, but deadlines are deadlines...
...newcomer to journalism, Barton once wrote editorials for a Sunday supplement called Every Week and then for Redbook magazine on such homely topics as prayer, success, happiness and free enterprise ("the system of hustle and hope"). After writing his bestselling life of Jesus (The Man Nobody Knows), depicting Him as "The Founder of Modern Business," Barton did a column ("Bruce Barton Says") for McClure's syndicate. Later he signed with King Features...