Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Site and architect came together by sheer chance. Seven years ago, rotund, ebullient Nat Owings, 56, a senior partner of the huge architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was visiting San, Francisco for the express purpose of courting a handsome divorcee, Margaret Wentworth. One fine fall day they set out on a picnic in the precipitous Big Sur country south of Carmel. Scrambling along the cliffs, they came upon a finger of land that thrust out into the Pacific in lonely grandeur. To the south, they could see a 40-mile sweep of coastline. Six hundred feet below, sea lions...
More guests, stories of Thomas' adventures, Edwards' desperate explanations -nothing gets the show back on the rails. Enter Prosper Buranelli, Thomas' short, rotund assistant...
...meet in Salt Lake City, rotund (5 ft. 5 in., 190 Ibs.), taciturn Arnold Riegger, 39, a sometime airplane mechanic of Longview, Wash., who has broken nearly every trapshooting record in the last eleven years, blasted 300 clay pigeons out of the sky, running his streak to 1,307 for a new world record...
Only seven weeks ago Adenauer had insisted that he intended to stand a fourth time for Chancellor in the 1961 elections. His own candidate for President was his Vice Chancellor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the rotund, popular engineer of the German economic miracle. But for once, the icy Adenauer eye failed to transfix his party's politicos. Rebellious Bundestag backbenchers protested that to make Erhard President would be to deprive the Christian Democratic Party of "our best vote-getter in 1961," and Erhard himself declined the offer (TIME, March 16). A successful defiance of Adenauer was something...
...this point a rotund shape loomed on the horizon. It was that of Sir Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph, 47, cheerily announcing his willingness to be of help: "I have always wanted to be a member of Parliament. I think my upbringing and varied experience of life entitle me to suppose without presumption that I have some useful contributions to make...