Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Dave Lawrence saw the picture in a new frame: the generally Republican Inquirer used it again, this time to illustrate an editorial of full-blown praise for Lawrence. "Head bowed in thought," said the Inquirer, "hands lifted in almost prayerful meditation or reaching out to emphasize some point, eyes half closed as he ponders a question, the Governor is revealed as a man under great stress-and as a man who is determinedly thinking his way through." Thus made to appear as a statesman instead of a pol, Pennsylvania's Lawrence sought out Photographer Vathis. "Accept...
...tieless, his straw boater firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
They were treading water about 50 yds. offshore when Al Kogler cried out. "I turned around," Shirley said later, "and saw this big grey thing flap up into the air. I don't know if it was a fin or a tail. I knew it was some kind of fish. There was thrashing in the water. He screamed again. He said, 'It's a shark! Get out of here...
Looking down on the ocean from the Presidio, San Francisco's history-encrusted Army post, Master Sergeant Leo P. Day saw what happened next. "I could see the boy in the foaming red water, shouting and signaling someone to 'go back, go back.' Then I saw the girl, swimming toward him, completely ignoring his warning. It was the greatest exhibition of courage I have ever seen...
...sent letters to Washington, asking the Justice Department to investigate the pact, the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether steel firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...