Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie version of his novelette, The Old Man and the Sea, Nobelman Hemingway was angling, day after day, for a near-world-record black marlin (TIME, April 23) in one of that fish's favorite haunts, the famed Cabo Blanco deep-sea hunting ground. Ashore in the port of Talara, after a wearying day's cruise, "Papa" Hemingway not only looked like a stout version of his own Old Man; he also had a dejected air, as if sharks had robbed him of his prize marlin. Actually, his party had bagged only one fish, half the size...
Died. Raymond Waller, 19, the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Fundation's poster boy since the organization's founding in 1950; after wasting away from the disease for 15 years; in Port Arthur, Texas. Adopted by widowed Mrs. Louise Waller from an orphan home in Austin after he was discovered as an abandoned infant in a Waco movie theater, Raymond fell an early victim to the crippling disease that afflicts some 200,000 people in the U.S. and for which neither cause nor cure is known...
Sunday Punch. In Port Arthur, Ont., Gordon Keith and William Stapely were arrested for disturbing a religious meeting after they went to The Pentecostal Church, disrupted services by praying too loud...
...cold and rainswept day last week, five young Russian refugee sailors were hustled into New York International Air port by a squad of 20 Russian agents and put aboard a plane for Moscow. In their incomplete and faltering English, the refugees assured U.S. immigration officials that they were returning to Communism "voluntarily." For waiting U.S. welfare workers, who had given them a start in a new country, the young Russians had no words to explain their redefection. "There was not a glimmer of recognition," one of the welfare workers said. "One of them turned to look at us, and then...
...liner Constitution hove to off the port of Monaco one morning last week and set Hollywood's Grace Kelly aboard Deo Juvante II, the virginal white 138-ft. yacht of Grace's groom-to-be, Prince Rainier III. All Monaco broke loose. Rockets zoomed, sirens screamed, dockside trolleys klaxoned, cannon fired 21-gun salutes. Ashore, the crowd-Mone-gasques, outlanders and the cream of world jewel thievery-dutifully roared. Overhead, a seaplane belonging to Sea Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with...