Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the American Physical Society Convention in Seattle last week, Dr. Marcel Schein of the University of Chicago had news to make even a sensation-jaded physicist draw a sharp breath. Last winter, he reported, he and his assistants tied a pack of photographic plates to a balloon, sent them...
Baseball to Bananas. Since the trucking business was down in the first half of this year, the big truck order is a gamble. But Riss, an old poker-playing crony of Harry Truman, has had a long career of cashing in on his gambles. He got into trucking by way...
"I said nothing doing, you're not good enough," Bulla recalls. "I think by the end of the year I had won about $500 and Sam had knocked down $10,000." Snead became the overnight sensation of golf. He took sixth place in the Los Angeles Open, then won...
Meanwhile, the Russian company stopped its closely guarded rehearsals and the dancers happily scattered to do some sightseeing. They made careful notes on historical details, placed flowers on the tombs of Victor Hugo and Chopin, visited a cellar nightclub (and were so startled by the boisterous interest their appearance created...
Died. Maria Isabella Patifio Goldsmith, 18, daughter of Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patiňio, whose runaway marriage in Scotland to British Hotel Heir James Goldsmith, 21, was a front-page tabloid sensation last winter (TIME, Jan. 18); after she collapsed in a Paris hotel with a cerebral hemorrhage, 24...