Word: q
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy with her warlike load, the huge plane ate up most of the mile-and-a-half Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base runway before she was airborne. Seconds later, Plane Captain E. Q. Steffes radioed that he was in real triple trouble: two of his engines were roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash...
Died. Frederick Chase Taylor (Colonel Lemuel Q.-"People have more fun than anybody"-Stoopnagle), 52, famed comic of radio, vaudeville and screen; of a heart ailment; in Boston. As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd...
...Show Goes On (Fri. 9:30 p.m., CBS). New full-hour variety show with Robert Q. Lewis...
...Fascism's heyday, Italy's press minded its political p's & q's, covered celebrities from a respectful distance and avoided sensations like the plague. But at war's end, editors gave violent vent to long-suppressed enterprise and emotions. They soaked their pages in sentimental crime stories, enthusiastically badgered headliners from Winston Churchill to Ingrid Bergman, encouraged reporters and photographers to operate like workers in the gaudiest days of Chicago journalism...