Word: record
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...know, you have produced the first successful helicopter." This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...
Dead Rebs & Asthma. He was born at 28 East aoth Street in Manhattan on Oct. 27, 1858, a calm evening that followed days of strong northeast wind and record tides. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a merchant-banker, of a Dutch family famous for seven generations in New York philanthropy, was a "Lincoln Republican." His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia-bred secessionist. One of T.R.'s first memories was about how he cheered for the Union and about how he would cheer even louder to reply to his mother's discipline. One night at family prayers Theodore...
Some 550 ladies slogged through Washington, D.C.'s record snowfall (14 in.) to a luncheon where Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the Senate majority leader, got a "Togetherness Award," presented to her by pert Dancer Marge Champion. Lurking together in the background were the affair's cosponsors, McCall's magazine and the Hecht Co., the capital's big department-store chain. Among other women honored for exemplifying "togetherness" (defined by McCall's Editor and Publisher Otis Wiese as "our greatest natural resource"): Adele Rogers, wife of the Attorney General; Author Bonaro W. (Understanding Fear...
Though he hated to get up early enough for his 9 o'clock classes ("a bloody nuisance"), McNair sailed through his courses with astonishing ease. He has come out with top marks in French literature, made a "very satisfactory" record in all his other subjects. He became senior debater of the debating team ("You should see the other teams turn green when he starts talking," says one classmate), last week was organizing a meeting to improve student-professor relations. His classmates' "sir" has long since given way to just plain "John...
...drawn strip is included as a comment on mid-century mores in a historical textbook published by George Washington University. Peanuts earned its paterfamilias, Minnesota-born Artist Charles Monroe Schulz, the Cartoonists' Society's annual Reuben Award. Last week the editors of Yale's humorous monthly Record twined ivy in young (35) Charles Schulz's laurels by naming him Humorist of the Year...