Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horseback-riding spill in Central Park, Mama lights up. But her social grasp exceeds the Morgenstern economic reach, and the new romance fades. Margie doesn't really care. Her destiny, she feels, is to be an actress. She has long since scribbled her stage name on a scrap of paper-MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR...
Saved from the Fire. Along with other refuse of war, the piano was supposed to be burned on a giant scrap heap in the desert. Carmi did not suspect that there might be anything special about it, but he could not bear the thought of any piano's being burned, no matter how old and battered. He got permission from his superior officer to keep it out of the flames. Later, partially restored but still encased in plaster, the piano was given to a troupe of entertainers touring the British armies in the Mediterranean...
...When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
...U.S.S. Pasadena found it intact and undamaged among the scrap in the battered naval base at Sasebo, 800 miles southwest of Tokyo, later donated it to Pasadena, Calif., where it was placed in the city hall. Tokyo's people heard that their bell was safe in a beautiful American city, but they were too proud to ask for it. Then, last June, Pasadena's Board of City Directors decided to return the bell...
...brickbats. When Britain's Reg Butler won a $12,670 prize for his Unknown Political Prisoner, a welded, cagelike construction that looked like a cross between a gibbet and a prison guard's lookout tower, an outraged refugee artist seized the first opportunity to pound it into scrap (TIME, March...