Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slim (6 ft. 2 in., 165 Ibs.) "Pat" Partridge graduated from West Point in 1924, rose through World War II bomber service in Europe with Generals Jimmy Doolittle and Curtis LeMay and postwar duty in the Pentagon to command the Fifth Air Force under Weyland in Korea. There Partridge won the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action in an unusual spot for an air commander. In a light observation hedgehopper, he conducted personal reconnaissance over U.N. forces advancing against Pyongyang and Chinnampo, completed his mission even though his plane was hit repeatedly by enemy ground machine-gun fire...
...Marcucci was in trouble. His little Philadelphia recording company (Chancellor Records) had been cashing in on the slim voice of a skinny, second-rate Sinatra named Frankie Avalon. But now Avalon was 17 and beginning to outgrow his appeal for the jukebox set. Busy as he was with his search for a replacement. Bob Marcucci took time to rush to the home of a South Philadelphia neighbor when he saw an ambulance drive up. Policeman Domenic Forte had suffered a heart attack, and Bob stuck around to help. Suddenly he had a vision. He turned to the sick...
Columbia's slim, publicity-shy Robert Frederick Loeb (pronounced Lerb), 64, Bard professor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, one of the nation's top medical teachers. Son of famed Physiologist Jacques Loeb, discoverer of artificial parthenogenesis, Robert Loeb left the University of Chicago after his sophomore year in 1915 to enter Harvard Medical School, graduated magna cum laude. After residency at Johns Hopkins, Loeb switched to Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in 1921, helped administer the first insulin treatment for diabetes, pioneered in electrolyte physiology, discovered the first effective treatment for Addison...
...three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined anti-imperialist, Cantabrigian Lee went to work right away on what he thought were imperialism's decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll...
...heyday of the International Boxing Club's strangle hold on U.S. boxing, Millionaire Sportsman James Dougan Norris ran the show in public, and a slim, grey-haired man named Paul John ("Frankie") Carbo ran a lot of it in private. Breaking up the Norris monopoly was relatively easy for the Justice Department. The underworld dominance of Frankie Carbo was something else again. Few figures in the fight game admitted knowing Carbo or dealing with him in any way. But last July the man known as "Mr. Grey" was finally indicted by a New York grand jury for illegal matchmaking...