Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephens was also impressed by the high regard in which TIME'S correspondents are held in most Latin American capitals. Once, when he was with Chilean Correspondent Mario Planet, who was buying stamps at a hotel desk, the clerk pointed to Planet and told Stephens: "Here is the best reporter in Santiago...
From this position of vantage, it has been his humor to attack established institutions and the entrenched powers of political and musical bumbledom with devastating gusto. Hailing the advent of broadcasting as "the foremost misfortune that has ever overtaken this planet," he has since accused the British Broadcasting Corp. again & again of "unprecedented acts of vandalism" and of "ineffable impudence" for its "butchering of whole works" and "massacring of masterpieces." He has shushed audiences for covert whisperings, or told them outright to shut up. Over an outraged shoulder, he has hissed at them as "savages" for untimely applause...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Joseph Gotten in The Tenth Planet...
Entourage of Rulers. Even after King Farouk banned mention of his escapades in the press, the Amins slyly kept their readers informed. They wrote about a vague group called the "Entourage of Rulers," as if the members lived on another planet, thus ticked off every bit of corruption of Farouk and his cronies. Said one article: "The Entourage of Rulers is not to blame for everything . . . An entourage is but a mirror. If there are thieves around a leader, he must appear to the people as the biggest thief of all." The next issue was promptly confiscated...
...gullible friends. Hitherto, my pooh-poohing of the "space-ship theory" . . . has been backed up only by my feeble guesses that they are caused by the trickery of lights; now, some one theory" who has knows and unmasked can these prove his terrors "light-spot (perhaps from another planet...