Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as 36 hours before the ship docks, even in calm weather, Manning takes his only sleep in catnaps; he hardly stays in his cabin long enough to shave. Nor does the commodore completely relax in port. He has never been to Paris because he can't leave his ship that long. This fanatic devotion to duty has taken its toll in Manning's personal life. Twelve years ago he married Florence Isabella Trowbridge Heaton, whom he met on a crossing. They were divorced two years later, shortly after their daughter was born. Explains Manning: "I couldn...
Conant's first official move after being installed as president in October, 1933 earned him the amazed thanks of the entire freshman class. Since 1760 men living in the Yard had been roused from their sleep at 7 a.m. by the so-called "rising bell" which was first situated in Harvard Hall and then in Memorial Hall. Conant announced that he had "looked into the matter and found no good reason for continuing the 7 o'clock bell, and therefore ordered that it be discontinued" This move--it was the early Roosevelt era--was claimed by some freshman...
...school Japanese, Araki is so polite that he finds it almost impossible to finish 18 holes of golf in a day because he keeps asking others to pass him. He wears a kimono at home and prefers to sleep on a straw mat on the floor. To cook for him and act as his official hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly...
...lower bunk of Wanger's cell lay stone-faced Evan Charles Thomas, the warped railroad switchman who, with his .22 rifle, had murdered one woman, wounded four, and thus inspired the recent movie The Sniper (TIME, May 19). But Producer Wanger slept the sound sleep of a man who knew an ordeal was all but ended. Its climax had really come last December when Wanger fired a pistol bullet into the groin of Actors' Agent Jennings Lang, whom Wanger then accused of trying to break up his marriage with Actress Joan Bennett. After Wanger threw himself...
During his reign in the '20s and '30s, Prince Mike was sometimes broke enough to sleep on park benches, but often as not he was to be found weekending with the very rich on Long Island or at Newport, a majestic little tramp, a peerless raconteur, an engaging and enigmatic character who read a great deal, played excellent chess and, when sober, was a perfect gentleman...