Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traveling by plane, train, boat and bus, White met a wide cross section of the population and was pleased to hear how many consider TIME their principal source of world news. Said a technician on the Mid-Canada Warning Line, who gets his copy of the magazine by helicopter: "There's a scramble when TIME comes in-and all along the line on the way in other guys have been reading it. Some of 'em cut out stories they like, and that's the worst part. I'll say this, though-it may arrive in tatters...
Throughout the nation an estimated 3,000 Teddy Boys carried on with such abandon that the councils of a dozen towns met in special session to consider banning Rock Around the Clock. Near theaters where it was still being shown, police mobilized in droves. The Teds themselves met the challenge with glee. "Just you come dahn 'ere on Sunday," said one young Londoner as the difficult week drew on. "They'll never 'old us Teds then, no matter 'ow many 'eavies they 'ave. We'll all be out for a giggle...
Defense officials worked mightily to comply with der Alte's exhortations. They assured Adenauer that his goal of 96,000 men in uniform by the end of the year would be met. There were 55,570 men already under arms, and recruits were pouring in at the rate of 4,500 a week. As fast as the Germans could accept them, U.S. tanks, self-propelled guns, 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, heavy machine guns and electronic equipment were rolling into German camps, part of a total $1 billion worth which the U.S. is giving the Germans to equip...
Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...
...met everyone from Osbert Sitwell to Lady Astor, and of course Wells met Wells. The British were eager to see in Main Street support for the comforting conviction that Americans, though rich, were a pretty uncouth lot. So Lewis was warmly received, but not all appreciated his japeries. When he met some prominent Irishmen, his notion of humor was to sing a funny song about Christ walking on the water. Lewis insisted on doing imitations at dinner, and they went on too long. He even fancied he resembled Bernard Shaw and bought a wig at Clarkson's", the theatrical...