Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope of keeping Mexico's treasures at home. Some officials are collectors themselves-and not above turning a fast peso on a good piece. They make smuggling ridiculously easy. Reaching the border with a station wagon full of pre-Columbian art, ex-Jockey and Art-Quiz Whiz Billy Pearson was "prepared to start throwing money around." The customs man demanded only food. "For a case of chilis," wrote Pearson in his autobiography, "I got through the border...
Gambit. In Clearwater, Fla., Wallis Cady, who has been playing chess-by-mail for 18 months with Ray Pearson of Detroit, wrote to remind Pearson that he had not made a move in seven months, soon got a note from Detroit, saying "I thought it was your move...
Sears, Roebuck promoted a package of a 12-ft. fiber-glass or aluminum boat, 7½h.p. outboard engine and 600-lb. -capacity auto trailer. Price: $477, with only $48 down. Rhode Island's Pearson Corp. showed off its 28-ft., six-berth auxiliary sloop, Peerless Triton, priced at $9,750, and Cape Cod Shipbuilding exhibited its 23-ft. sloop-rigged Marlin cruising sailboat, which has done well in midget ocean-racing. For those who want to use boats as homes, Evinrude motors displayed a prototype expand-at-will, fiberglass, aluminum and wood houseboat that floats on pontoons...
...recent months British newsmen have swarmed over SAC headquarters at Omaha, flown H-bomb patrol over Alaska, eyewitnessed moon shots at Cape Canaveral, studied the lot of the Manhattan chairwoman, tuned in on Beat-Generation talk in San Francisco. London Sunday Times Reporter Kenneth Pearson flew over to file a three-part series on the Broadway musical, West Side Story-inspiring the London Daily Express to fly the West Side troupe to London for a night...
...should be Adlai E. Stevenson, who remains far and away the wisest voice to be heard in the world today. DAVID PEARSON ETTER Evanston...