Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stockly's first story for TIME, written for the issue of June 26. 1933, was titled "Bellower." It was the account of a slight stroke suffered by 63-year-old Joe Humphries, in those days the stentorian dean of sports announcers. Less than a year later. Stockly wrote his first cover story-on Astronomer Sir Arthur S. Eddington. For the past three years he has been TIME'S expert on the Korean war, writing most of the battlefront stories about that area...
...annals of the U.S. Marine Corps, slight, wiry Sergeant Albert Luke Ireland of Cold Spring, N.Y. is a man of great distinction: he holds more Purple Heart citations than any other marine on record. Last week, after the Marine Corps had finally got around to giving his combat wounds their due, Ireland was the owner of a white-striped purple ribbon with eight gold stars...
...eyes "framed in long and vigorous lashes." He would bend over them while they were working, and when they felt "his fresh, youthful, fruit-scented breath on their necks and faces, a novel, unexpected feeling of well-being would run through them, bringing with it a swift intoxication, a slight giddiness." Neither of the old maids had the least idea what was creating such havoc in their dried-up bosoms...
Nevertheless, the slight lifting of the curtain raised a problem for Western newsmen. "Why did they let us in?" asked U.P. Paris Bureau Chief Ed Korry. "The Communists stand to win either way. If we report their peace congress, we quote them saying they want peace ... If you write about them in a nasty way, they say 'We're willing to be nice; it's the Western correspondents who are warmongers...
...walk, came 52-year-old Baritone Eddy, his blond-tinted grey hair brushed to wavy perfection. When he began singing, the crowd knew for sure that he had not changed at all; his big voice had not lost a bit of its old boom, or, for that matter, its slight nasal tone. There was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There was also, of course, the Eddy specialty, Short...