Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late stepfather, Milton Work, hired Charles Goren, taught him a lot of bridge and some manners, paid him $35 a week as a ghostwriter, edited not the "brightness" but the brashness from his writing, introduced him into circles otherwise closed to him_in short, gave him a real leg up toward his present (undoubtedly earned and deserved) income of $150,000 a year...
EMMETT F. SHORT Shellman...
...prologue. By New Year's major U.S. airlines will be flying timetable jet trips from New York to California. San Francisco, once no days away from New York by sailing packet, 2½ days away by rail and eight hours by nonstop piston transport, will move to a short distance of 4½ hours. The 49th state of Alaska will be closer to Washington-nine hours or so-than was the capital of Delaware...
Even more interesting to scientists than the moon's atmosphere is the dust that is believed to cover much of its surface. CETEX does not think that anything short of a nuclear explosion would directly contaminate the dust. CETEX'S concern is more subtle. Some scientists believe that the earth-type life did not evolve entirely on the earth in its early stages. Fairly large and complex organic molecules may have formed from primeval gases out in space itself. When these molecules sifted down on the earth's surface, they may have reacted with one another...
...that the San Francisco company has welcomed such artists as Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Christoff, Siminonato, Valletti, Gobbi, Schwarzkopf and Rysanek for their U.S. debuts, can boast a list of U.S. premieres that puts the Met to shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton's Troilus and Cressida, Poulenc's Carmelites, Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake. Retorted Bing: "My congratulations and greatest respect to Mr. Adler for his daring to introduce...