Word: sheldon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tenderloin (Book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; based on Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel) is the work of the same team that turned out Fiorello! Like Fiorello!, Tenderloin is a period musical whose scene is New York and whose subject is reform. Unlike Fiorello!, this yarn of a clergyman of the '90s crusading against Manhattan's vast red-light district and colliding with its venal police force proves pretty heavy going. The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy...
...have seen how America is losing is the Middle East," began Thernstrom, a former Sheldon Traveling Fellow. "They're losing here now, too," someone shouted...
...Glacier. While Air Force planes dropped stoves, oxygen, tents, rope and food, military helicopters tried to land on the upper slopes, turned back again and again because of gusty winds. From Talkeetna came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member...
...plane could accommodate a passenger. He popped an oxygen tube into his mouth and took off. Ten minutes later he landed on the upper slope at 17,200 ft., scooped up a seriously injured John Day, 51, ferried him down to the 10,200-ft. station, where Bush Pilot Sheldon was waiting to take Day to the hospital...
...this time he became confused by darting light and shadow, landed on a steep slope. He took off again, landed on a cornice 200 ft. from the camp, but the snow was too soft. Luckett raised off again, plucked Climber Peter Schoening off the snow, deposited him into Don Sheldon's waiting plane below. In all, Luckett made five landings on the upper slope. "You just don't make trips like that for money," he said later. "It was hairy." By week's end two high-altitude (30,000 ft.), turbine-powered Air Force choppers arrived from...