Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sole news of the President which reached the waiting world were the brief bulletins flashed to shore, first by the destroyers Monaghan and Dale acting as convoys, later by the Potomac. Sole piscatorial feat was credited to "Uncle Fred." Sum total of the world's knowledge of Franklin Roosevelt...
Hours ahead of time the river bank was black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem...
Sliding the ship into the slot cut for her on the opposite shore at the time of her launching (TIME, Oct. 1, 1934) and turning her downstream was performed without incident. Less than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...
...table, a black lace scarf thrown over her shoulders (see cut). Shrewdly Artist Ganso has repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist Ganso, but watchful Dealer Weyhe is careful not to overprice his work. Ganso's most seductive nudes sell...
This description of John Davison Rockefeller Sr. at play 36 years ago was divulged last week by his onetime golf teacher, Joe Mitchell, now professional at the Lake Shore Country Club in Chicago. Oilman Rockefeller had taken up the game when his horseshoe-pitching arm went dead, wished to keep his preparations secret from Mrs. Rockefeller, who already played a respectable duffer's game. Accordingly Instructor Mitchell was brought to the course every morning in Mr. Rockefeller's own closed carriage. The strange cries which occasionally sounded over the course came from guards posted to warn Mr. Rockefeller...