Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital of Turkey been much larger, the incident might have passed unnoticed, but before long all of Ankara seemed to be talking about Idil Biret, the amazing four-year-old daughter of a local sugar-refinery official. One day in 1946 little Idil sat down at the piano, and without a note of music before her, dashed off a Bach piece she had just heard over the radio. The story gave newspapers and music lovers an idea: Why couldn't the state send Turkey's child prodigies abroad for proper study...
...blustery February morning in 1953, a B-29 took off from Massachusetts' Bedford airport and pointed its nose along the great-circle route to Los Angeles. There were eight people aboard the big bomber, but after take-off no one worked the controls. For two hours, a pilot sat watching the instruments. Then he got bored and let the plane fly itself. It did, making minor corrections for each gust of air. It rose to 21,000 ft. to traverse the Rockies, stayed on course through a 100-m.p.h. wind shift over Nevada. Finally, 13 hours...
...Black. They rented their first office and sat down to draw up a list of possible financial backers. The first name was Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc., which already had its foot in the electronics door with a parts subcontract for Hughes's Falcon missile. As soon as Thompson heard from Ramo and Wooldridge. it told them to look no farther-just hurry to Cleveland to work out the financing details. Though Howard Hughes offered to help finance their new venture, it was too late...
...grey-walled Manhattan office last week, the president and majority stockholder (50.6%) of Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc., tightly surrounded by a grey cashmere sweater and four lawyers, called the stockholders' meeting to order. Opposite President Monroe sat M.M.P.'s vice president and minority stockholder (49-4%), sharp little Photographer Milton H. Greene. The agenda: President Monroe merely wished to elect a new board, and in the process to dump Vice President Greene. In 1954 Marilyn, lonely and self-exiled from Hollywood, was befriended by enterprising Promoter Greene. M.M.P.'s contract called for a pooling of their talents...
...jurymen may dine." The force of Pope's words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...