Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleekly barbered businessman at ringside nodded his approval ("Frankie's voice has cracked a little, but what the hell . . . so's mine"). He seemed unbothered by what the night with Sinatra was costing him. The sunburned blonde who shared his table dropped a bone to applaud, her diamonds glittering; she seemed bemused by what a night of Sinatra might be worth. Whatever the song -Willow Weep for Me, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Lady Is a Tramp-Frankie's unmatched showmanship, his sad, slow baritone, his baggy, bedroom eyes got the message across...
Died. Duncan Hines, 78, roadside gourmet, compiler of Adventures in Good Eating (listing 3,400 recommended restaurants), Lodging For a Night (4,000 hostelries), and Adventures in Good Cooking, who traveled over 2,000,000 miles tasting food, charged nothing for a listing in his books, $10-$20 a year for rental of a Duncan Hines sign; of cancer; in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1956, Duncan Hines's assorted gastronomic enterprises became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble...
...agelong struggle against the sea there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...
...retelling is no less exciting. The 29,000-ton Doria revived Titanic's builders' claims of being an unsinkable ship. Relying on her radar eyes, she barely slackened speed (from 23 to 21.8 knots) as she slammed westward through thick fog past Nantucket lightship on a July night in 1956. Approaching her, eastbound, was the Stockholm, also radar-equipped. Reporter Moscow, who sifted 6,000 pages of testimony, does not solve the mystery of how two ships with radar could collide so disastrously. The last vital blips of evidence were suppressed when the shipowners settled damage claims...
...smocks clutching scalpels and chemical swabs ... If there be fifty nailheads in a painted cask, they want to see all fifty. So they strip away . . . Hardly a single master has escaped intact, but Rembrandt appears to have suffered most of all, both in America and in Europe. His celebrated Night Watch at Amsterdam is now a Day Watch" Some other Eliot reflections...