Word: shoestringing
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In dramatizing the adjustment of a seven-year-old Indian boy to a white man's world, the picture offers no feathers, war whoops or ceremonial dances, but it unfortunately uses some stock movie devices. Little Son of the Hunter, who speaks no English and is resentful of white...
To hold Hoa Binh against Communist counterattacks, General Raoul Salan, De Lattre's successor in Indo-China, increased the French garrison to 23,000 men, sent his shoestring air force to strafe Red convoys. But the Reds were too strong: using Russian antiaircraft guns, they shot down ten French...
The U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce announced its "ten outstanding young men of 1951." On the list: Helicopter Designer Stanley Miller Jr., 27; Gordon B. McLendon, 30, president of the mushrooming (443 stations) Liberty Broadcasting System; Air Force Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, 32, Korean air ace, who last week bagged...
This isn't the first time Earle Newton has turned a shoestring into a magazine. A graduate of Amherst, where he founded its literary magazine, Touchstone, he served as a Navy historian in World War II, then went back to his job running Vermont's Historical Society. He...
Ward had also learned how to stretch his financial shoestring. He got experts, who became interested in Year, to do part-time work for little pay, wangled many free pictures, and, for 1951, got Historian Arnold J. Toynbee to write a foreword, simply by writing and asking for it.