Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest. We don't think chalk crosses (so many feet wide) are quite sporting; we'd rather a silver dollar, thumbtack or playing card were used for a mark...
Still officially grounded by CAA for impetuously buzzing the control tower at Teterboro Airport, N.J. last January, Radio-TV Favorite Arthur Godfrey nonetheless stepped up before the National Aviation Trades Association meeting at Virginia Beach to accept a diamond-studded silver punch bowl as a token of his contribution toward popularizing aviation. Humbly, he apologized for "getting into a little trouble with the CAA," then beat CAA to the punch by announcing that, come Sept. 16, Pilot Godfrey, who has passed a new physical exam, will have CAA's O.K. to fly again...
...around the ears, and he was lame in his left hind leg . . . Nobody much wanted that donkey then, but I took him home and put him in the stable and nursed him ... By this spring you couldn't count his ribs, and his hair was shining like a silver fox. I got on that donkey and started to ride him to the governor's mansion, and who do you suppose it was who wanted to take him away from me? Why, it was Allan Shivers...
Dragnet (Warner) is the second major television show-I Love Lucy led the way with The Long, Long Trailer (TIME, Feb. 22 )-to make the tricky segue from the electronic to the silver screen. The transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in the parlor gets lost in the movie house (e.g., the staccato monotone, urgent and effective when the actor is only ten inches high and has to exaggerate plenty to get attention, is just a meaningless affectation when he is 20 feet tall...
...City had nothing to be ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...