Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasionally mistaken for each other because of the similarity of our names. Until Max's record-breaking flight, I was always able to clear up the confusion between us by saying that he has ten children and I have only two, and that he has flown the ocean many times and I never have. Now I can only talk about
...they could conceivably build up to the point where a future president might get more than under the old bonus system. No Bethlehem executive is so optimistic as to expect bonuses to return to what were the really good old days. In 1929 President Eugene Grace set an alltime record by collecting $12,000 as salary. $1,623,753 as bonus...
...host to one of gangland's most baffling conclaves at his plush hilltop home in Apalachin, N.Y.; of a heart attack; in Johnson City, N.Y. Mystery still shrouds Barbara's famed barbecue, where police caught 65 Mafia mobsters carrying among them $300,000 in cash, a combined record of 153 arrests, 74 convictions. An immigrant (1921) from Sicily who was convicted only once (a $5,000 fine for sugar smuggling). Barbara avoided police for 25 years at Apalachin, but after his party he was indicted -with 26 others-for refusing to explain the purpose of the meeting...
Died. Max Sherover, 70, founder (1929) and president of the Linguaphone Institute of America, which offers a $60 phonograph record course in any of 34 languages and such offbeat items as a Dormiphone, which drills a student in vocabulary while he sleeps; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Polish-born Sherover once edited a socialist newspaper in Buffalo, published a five-language trade journal in Japan, built a Brooklyn hotel. Able to converse in twelve languages, he used to startle garrulous cab drivers by correctly guessing their birthplaces...
There is a school of thought which holds that bullfight bores are more deserving of ball-bat anesthesia than jazz bores, but this school is wrong. A bullfight bore may re-enact Manolete's death spasms, but a jazz bore will replay the same Charlie Parker record, with contrapuntal commentary, until his woofer melts. The public ear has been grievously bent, and therefore any novel about jazzmen that is fresh, authentic and ungummed by cultism is an achievement...