Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the yacht reached Panama at night and dropped anchor, a speedboat zigzagged out from shore and megaphoned: "Get the hell outa here -you're anchored in the middle of a minefield." Ashore, Forbis almost died of a ruptured appendix. "I had a bad week or so there." said Payne. "I thought I was going to have to send some painful letters home...
After he recovered, Forbis landed a job on the bilingual Panama American. When he was promoted, Payne took his old job. That set the pattern that they have been following since. Forbis became our stringer in Panama, then staff correspondent for Central America. Payne followed him as stringer. and when in 1951 Forbis moved to New York to write HEMISPHERE news. Payne came on the staff as Central America correspondent...
...track. A determined horseman himself, he has a 1,500 acre stud farm, raised one horse, Nimbus, that won the Derby in 1949. Bill calls the track his "shop window" and puts on a good display. Togged out in a sharply cut lounge suit, silk shirt and floppy Panama, he joins one of the three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand to a hundred." Says Bill with considerable pride: "The entire business...
Said Frank Sinatra last week, as he sat cockily in his ebony-furnished, "agency modern" offices in Los Angeles' William Morris Agency and tilted a white-banded black panama off his forehead: "Man, I'm buoyant. I feel about eight feet tall." Said a friend: "He's got it made. He's come all the way back and he's gone still further. He's made the transition from the bobby-sox to the Serutan set and if he keeps on going like he's going, he'll step right in when...
...review the new party program. Some in the audience were already beginning to drowse under the somniferous spell of Marxist platitudes when the chairman of the meeting suddenly barked: "We have an important announcement to make . . ." Before he could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since the death of Kyuichi Tokuda (TIME, Aug. 8), and two of his henchmen. Looking like a dapper but tired businessman, Nozaka approached the microphone, told...