Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half light of the North Pole, 50 years after Explorer Robert Peary first got there, the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate cleaved up to the surface through densely packed winter ice. There Skate's officers and men, on their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack...
Hale as could be on his 85th birthday, salty, shaggy Poet Robert Frost huffed lamely at a birthday cake, tackled the inevitable press conference. "Someone said to me that New England's in decay," rasped Frost. "But I said the next President is going to be from Boston. That doesn't sound like decay." Who, he was asked, might that be? "Can't you figure that out? It's a Puritan named (John) Kennedy." Aha, but did Frost want the boyish Senator to win? "Anything from Boston is all right with...
...useless), "B" (perhaps) and "A" (usable), has already accumulated a three-year supply of A's. These get published in his weekly column, and win a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books (54 volumes, value $300), which Adler co-edited in the 1940s with Robert Hutchins. then the University of Chicago's chancellor...
...swarming hunters have forced the local governments to impose restrictions to prevent depletion of game, and many an old hand mourns the change. One of them is Columnist Robert Ruark, who is respected by white hunters as one of the few sharpshooters among the amateurs. Currently on safari in Kenya, Ruark writes: "I should think it likely that this will be my last proper big safari, and the thought grieves me. What I bemoan mainly is the loss of the old, wild freedom when you could take off in almost any direction and find something exciting without having to check...
...Dick Powell (Murder, My Sweet), Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep), Robert Montgomery (Lady in the Lake...