Word: sections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing Fields of Camelot. In this work Author White has revised and rewritten the three previous books in his Arthurian cycle and combined them with an entirely new concluding section. The saga opens with sylvan innocence in an England that is roughshod yet full of rural graces. The only thing that troubles the towhead Wart (Arthur-to-be) is the commonly accepted notion that he is a bastardly blot on the escutcheon of a country squire named Sir Ector. whose proper son Kay is an unamiable toad. Sir Ector wants both lads to acquire a good "eddication." An old "tilting...
...have finished reading your Jack Paar story and regard it as the best printed article of 1958. Of course, you had one of the country's best comedians for a subject. Your newest section-Show Business-has also won my heartiest approval. Keep up the good work...
...become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows-the popular Dotto-was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served as an appropriate curtain raiser to the Dotto affair; the story on Frank Sinatra's invasion of Madison...
Thach swung into characteristically blurring motion, gathering his components and his men, laying out his experimental course over a 100-by-100-mile section of the Atlantic ("My large outdoor schoolhouse"). Alfa's job was "very simple," he explained. "There's 10,000 square miles of water out there, and ours is just a problem of conversion. We've got to convert all that to 350 feet by 35 feet-the space that a submarine occupies out of all that area...
...jiffy." In one hour last July, he disposed of six appeals. To one man contesting a magistrate's order, he snapped: "Go away. I simply don't know what all this is about." To another who insisted that he had been convicted under the wrong section of a municipal ordinance, he roared: "What section should you have been convicted under? I am sure you should have been convicted of something. Application dismissed...