Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captain, and signed up (for an estimated $50,000) for the rest of the season, Ted Williams stepped up for his first batting practice in over a year, sprayed Boston's Fenway Park with line drives, quit 15 minutes later with a quarter-sized blister on his right palm...
...four-year-old with a posterior no larger than the palm of an irate parent's hand is rapidly becoming the nation's most popular towhead. As a comic-strip character, Dennis the Menace is practically a member of the family for the readers of 200 U.S. newspapers. But this little one-man gang has also become something of a sensation between book covers. Dennis the Menace, published last September, has already sold close to 140,000 copies. Even a publisher could guess the sequel to that: More Dennis the Menace...
Anyone with an Itch. There was a time when sailors were pretty well confined to short stretches of blue water between Bar Harbor, Me. and Palm Beach, Fla. with a few genteel outposts in New Orleans, the Great Lakes and the West Coast. Those were the days when a wealthy gentleman, admiring J. Pierpont Morgan's 302-ft. Corsair, asked him: "How much does it cost to run a yacht?" And old J.P. bluntly told him: "You cannot afford it. Anyone who has to ask how much it costs to run a yacht cannot possibly afford to keep...
PROCTER & Gamble, which has far outdistanced rival Colgate-Palm-olive-Peet in both soap and detergent sales, is now getting ready to challenge Colgate in its specialty: toothpaste. Already on sale in nine states, P. & G.'s new "Gleem" dentifrice will get national distribution next year...
Constitutional Flop. In far-off London, the House of Commons showed its alarm. Nigeria, more than twice the size of California and rich in palm oil, tin and perhaps uranium, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. Under a federal constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria...