Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Weeks, 59, a slim, hawk-nosed New Jerseyite of good schooling (Cornell, Harvard, Cambridge) and filigree style, has been the Atlantic's editor for 19 years, longer than all but his immediate predecessor, the celebrated Ellery Sedgwick. Weeks's Atlantic has had to endure the penalties of...
In the third-floor composing room of the Chicago Sun-Times last week, a forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it...
As it always does, the mere thought of a crise de régime turned the talk to the ever-ready strongman, General de Gaulle. By the sheerest coincidence, the hawk-nosed wartime leader, now 66, chose last week to make one of his periodic excursions to Paris. Typically, De...
Died. (Albert) Wayne Coy, 53, sharp-nosed, sharp-witted onetime (1947-52) chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Radio-television consultant to TIME Inc. since 1952, Coy was president of the Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. (KOB-TV) until its sale last January, president of Twin...
Bourvil, an unbacked Paris hackie, supports himself by odd jobs, including meat-running. A stupid and unimaginative fellow, he enlists the help of Gabin in transporting a freshly slaughtered pig through an obstacle course lined with gendarmes, prostitutes, Nazi soldiers, informers and other keen-nosed dogs. Only the Gallic touch...