Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to your Dec. 7 article on the rescue of William Buie, fireman third class, after falling overboard from his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell, by the U.S.S. Frank Knox: I feel strongly that more credit should be given to the sailor directly responsible by hearing William Buie's yelling plea. You should have printed his picture and given his name. This boy deserves plaudits for being aware of his surroundings and using his ears not merely for hearing but for listening. L.R. Seyfried St. Louis...
...keep up his courage. Buie began singing the only song whose words he knew-Tennessee Waltz. After about the sixth chorus, his voice had splintered to a teeth-chattering accompaniment, and Buie began to lose hope. He dozed a while. Then, two hours after he went overboard, he saw lights. It was the escort vessel Leslie L. B. Knox, sailing a random course between exercises. Buie yelled. A sharp-eared sailor on watch heard him, sounded the emergency rescue alarm. Searchlights blazed. Knox's helm swung hard over to circle, and Rescue Swimmer Harold Martin, 19, dived over...
With U.S. consumer debt at a new high, a top Government economist last week issued a stern call for credit caution. Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of the President's economic advisory council, told the nation's bankers not to go "overboard" in increasing consumer installment buying. Said Saulnier at the American Bankers Association's annual convention in Miami: "I hope we do not get involved this year or next in a great splurge of consumer expenditure propelled by credit expansion...
...Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials and playing some small parts on such dramatic shows as the U.S. Steel Hour. (On the Armstrong show about the liner Andrea Doria, Patty was the child tossed overboard by her mother.) Soon Patty had worked up to a leading part and rave notices for her performance in The Prince and the Pauper...
Under the impact of West Germany's economic "miracle," the socializing fire that once raged in the soul of German workers is sputtering low. Last week, formally throwing overboard the dogmas of Socialist Prophet Karl Marx, West Germany's Social Democratic Party issued a new statement of party principles that proclaimed: "Free competition as far as possible, planning only as necessary." And in the bustling, middle-class city of Stuttgart, well-tailored, paunchy successors of the slam-bang trade union streetfighters who formed Soviets in Germany four decades ago rode in their limousines to the sedate national convention...