Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Rifles. Tommy White's quiet but firm drive for perfection, his professional sense of urgency, are reflected at every level of the Air Force's 25,000-plane command-including 14,000 jets, 12,500 of them strike planes-to the point that his 900,000-man force lives all day, every day, by the doctrine of instant readiness. At Strategic Air Command bases from Okinawa to Limestone, Me. to Morocco, one-third of SAC's force of about 1,500 nuclear 6-47 medium jet bombers. 200 6-52 heavy jet bombers ("the long rifles...
...Looks quiet," said White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty to his associate, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, before leaving on a ten-day vacation. "Let's keep it that way." Hagerty had barely arrived in Puerto Rico when Sputnik 11 shattered the lull at the White House. Annie Wheaton's first week under the gun as acting press secretary was Ike's busiest in months...
Rumple (book by Irving Phillips; music and lyrics by Ernest G. Schweikert and Frank Reardon) has just one real asset: Eddie Foy. He has the twin gifts of perfect stage presence and quiet audience courtship, the jaunty, pinpointed song-and-dance-man skill of the vaudeville era. He knows every last little hop, skip and jump, and nudge, bop and scram; he is master of the soft shoe, the dead pan, the faraway smile. As Rumple, a newspaper-cartoon character in danger of extinction because his creator has lost the power to portray him, he fights for survival with tactics...
...evening as calm as the shirtsleeved men watering their lawns in the gentle half-light. A streetcar makes its metallic groan on a curve and disappears trailing sparks like blue fireflies; chanting children play in the circling glow of a lamppost. And when it grows dark, there are more quiet stars in the sky than there will ever be again...
...Follet. death came suddenly in 1955 for Author James Agee, 45. Born in Knoxville, a graduate of Harvard, Agee spent 16 years as a writer on FORTUNE and TIME, and during the last years of his life worked on the scenarios for such movies as The African Queen, The Quiet One, Face to Face (in which he also appeared in a bit part). With each of his few books-Permit Me Voyage (1934), a collection of poems published when Agee was scarcely out of college; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), an angry Depression report on sharecroppers...