Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They planned one day to meet on a palm-shaded lanai in sight of the swimming pool and then, to avoid nosy newsmen, switched with their retinue (five lawyers), like French-farce husbands, from the Atwater Kent Suite to the Mary Martin Suite to the parquet-floored Terrace Room. They looked and acted like directors of General Motors come to dream about new models, but they were the General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters trying to work their way out of trouble...
...bargaining table while borrowing money under curious circumstances from businessmen with Teamster contracts, consorting with hoods and ruthlessly pushing around local Teamster leaders who got in his way. He teamed up with New York Racketeer Johnny Dio to discredit old-time Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey and to dethrone Martin Lacey from the presidency of the powerful New York Teamsters Joint Council 16 (some 60 locals). Hoffa succeeded ultimately: his man John O'Rourke finally became president of the council. Now Old Teamster Hickey is standing up in opposition to Hoffa's bid for the Teamsters' presidency...
Secretary of the Navy Thomas S. Gates Jr. and his flight-safety experts were delighted at the first live trial of the Martin-Baker ejection seat in this country (it has been successfully tried once in England-TIME, Sept. 19. 1955), hopefully predicted that the device would cut pilot fatality rates. Last year more than half the Navy's 277 pilot fatalities stemmed from take-offs or landings. "At the end of the runway, if something goes wrong, the pilot up to now has been helpless," said Rear Admiral Thurston B. Clark, commander of the test center. "We tell...
Giddy Gelding. This, fall Arlene will star in a new Harry (Reclining Figure) Kurnitz comedy on Broadway called Once More-With Feeling, to be co-produced by her second husband, Actor-Director Martin Gabel. She will still do both her TV shows, look after her interest in a posh Manhattan saloon called Michael's Pub, raise some cows, and try to get Cut Purse, the horse that she owns with TV Critic John Crosby,* out on the tracks ("He's been spoiled for two years. We had to geld him, he was so giddy...
...DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER MARTIN (208 pp.)-William Golding-Harcourt, Brace...