Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request-format for poetry and made it work. When he finishes a poem, he picks up the telephone, listens to a new request from a viewer, and makes small talk while he leafs through his library to find the poem or passage wanted. Now for Nordine is broadcast after peak viewing hours, yet hundreds of listeners try to phone in every week. Those who fail to get through send in requests by mail. Last week he read, by request: Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude," Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," Elizabeth Barrett Browning...
...best novels to come out of postwar England. Certainly it is one of the most significant, and worth study by anyone who wants to know where English fiction is heading nowadays. No other novel of recent years is a better example of English writing at its contemporary peak of stylized, aristocratic poise-never a flubbed phrase, never a pothole in the smooth course. Author Leslie Poles Hartley, a Harrow-and-Oxford man with six finely finished novels behind him (Eustace and Hilda and The Boat), was born in 1895-roughly contemporary with the late great D. H. Lawrence...
...round-the-clock job for the transportation experts in TIME'S Travel Bureau. Each month the department buys the transportation and handles all the details for some 1,500 "legs" of trips. A "leg" may be anything from a New York-Washington flight to arranging (at the peak of the tourist season) passage for Correspondent Thomas Dozier and family on a ship from New York to Spain, where he is to take over this month as Madrid bureau chief...
...this time of the year, the Travel Bureau's work hits its annual peak-for it also lends a helping hand to TIME-Incers leaving on long U.S. vacation trips. Sometimes a trip is a combination of business and pleasure. An example is the trip which the bureau recently organized for TIME Lecturer John Scott. With his wife and daughter, he left for a 14-week tour of 14 European and Middle Eastern countries to gather new material for his talks. Among other things, the bureau had to get 21 separate visas by the time the Scotts' plane...
What Next? Has the do-it-yourself boom reached its peak? No one thinks so -least of all the do-it-yourselfers. As their skills increase, they see themselves tackling bigger and bigger projects. The man who has put together an 8-ft. pram begins to leaf through plans for an 18-ft. outboard cruiser. The woman who has restuffed and recovered an old chair begins to wonder if she could not make a set of furniture for the dining room. Sales to the shoulder trade are climbing so fast that by 1960 the estimates are that they will...