Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United's Patterson [TIME, April 21] spend more time supervising his airline and less time indulging in smart repartee with Eddie Rickenbacker. The plight of the average United passenger who is dumped at an airport miles outside the city is not unlike that of Raft-Man Rickenbacker...
Anthropologists will put themselves to a lot of trouble to prove a pet theory. Last week, five Norwegians and a Swede were making plans to sail westward from Callao, Peru, on a seagoing raft. They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians. They hoped to prove that the South Pacific islands had been visited-perhaps partly peopled-by civilized Indians from South America...
Once, at an Air Transport Association meeting, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker complained that he hadn't been informed of certain matters. Patterson snapped: "If you'd quit sitting on a life raft in the Pacific all your life you'd understand these things. We discussed them at our last meeting." Rickenbacker whipped back: "Yes, and it's little sonovabitches like you that make me wish I was back there...
...Manhattan headquarters is a plushy terrace apartment on fashionable East 64th Street. Its built-in bar (for guests; Durocher seldom touches liquor) has stools made of catcher's mitts on baseball bats. Leo has a passion for racy autos, fancy ties and $175 suits made by Cinemactor George Raft's tailor...
...some of the headlines have not been the kind that look well in a scrapbook. There were the headlines in Philadelphia when Leo slugged a reporter. And the headlines about what happened in Leo's apartment while Leo was away: when Screen Tough George Raft won $18,000 from a gullible manufacturer in a wild-&-woolly crap game...