Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precariously through the wilderness. Returning to civilization sporting a handsome beard (TIME. July 15). Steeves. 23, was taken in tow by Air Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around Dave Steeves's ears; the Satevepost announced that it was canceling its contract, and Steeves's wife Rita announced that she was considering a divorce...
...family breakup, explained Mrs. Steeves. "preceded the whole adventure in the mountains. The whole mess has been going on a long time." But the Post cancellation was a surprise. After a Satevepost writer had interviewed Steeves for three weeks and led him back along his High Sierra trail, the Post's writer found certain "discrepancies" in his story; e.g., his boots seemed to be in remarkably good shape; Steeves at first sturdily showed no knowledge of a small forest fire discovered in the area where he says he camped, later said that he started the fire...
...persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post at the end of his present home leave...
...sample, which tested at a riotously drunk 285 mg. after a three-car crash in which one man was killed. Purpose of the suits: to test Kansas' law which says that anybody driving on the state's highways is presumed to have given his consent to a post-accident blood test...
Died. Edgar Odell Lovett, 86, longtime (1908-46) president of Houston's Rice Institute, who was teaching math and astronomy at Princeton when its president, Woodrow Wilson, nominated him for the Texas post; in Houston...