Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shopping expedition near his Manhattan apartment, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, 63, strolled past a, five-story tenement, was squarely conked on the head by an old, wicker-seat armchair that mysteriously dropped from the building's roof. After cops surmised that the armchair strategists were probably mischievous kids, Connelly snorted: "I always knew children were antisocial, but children on the West Side-they're savages...
...layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
...children have had the luck to grow up amid such intellectual variety. Grandfather Richard Garnett actually lived in the British Museum, where he was Keeper of Printed Books. Father Edward, who climbed the museum roof as other boys climb trees, became one of Britain's most influential literary advisers. Mother Constance learned Russian to while away the time, soon became the foremost English translator of Russian literature. Her toughest assignment: War and Peace, from which she emerged half blind...
...proposed arena would presumably be ready for next winter's hockey season if it were started in August. Besides providing a weatherproof roof for the ice, it would seat 2,000 spectators and include dressing rooms for the teams...
...Lovelorn. In Chicago, police nabbed Carl Mannelli and John Thomas on the roof of the Wisconsin Packing Co. with an assortment of wrenches and a hack saw, took them off to jail despite Mannelli's plea: "Honest, we were just looking for girls...