Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIFE editorial lunch six months ago he talked about the theater. But afterward he talked even more enthusiastically about his friend Ernest Hemingway's new novel, which he had just read while visiting the author in Cuba. To back up his claims for the book, Hayward sent a spare copy of the manuscript to LIFE'S editors. Result: this week LIFE (circ. 5,339,565) is publishing a special 20-page insert of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the first time in the memory of publishers that a U.S. magazine has ever printed...
...Bigamist Leroy Holzman, a New Orleans tourist guide, explained that polygamy was simple enough if a man budgeted his time: he lived with wife No. 2 from midnight to 8 a.m., with wife No. 5 from 5 p.m. until midnight, and with wife No. 4 whenever he had some spare time. He admitted, however, that he had found it necessary to divorce wife No. i and split up with wife No. 3 before his schedule clicked. Said he in jail: "I'd like to get some rest...
...seizure was a conspicuous loss of face for the Communists; it was also an important economic blow. The disputed planes (mostly C-46s and DC-38, plus six DC-48 and five Convairs), along with thousands of spare parts, are worth an estimated $30 million, the biggest piece of airline property in East Asia. The Communists expecting to hang on to the planes, had kept most of them carefully mothballed and in good condition. Hong Kong nervously got set for reprisals against British business...
...make entire vehicles for air drops out of the wonder metal. The infantry has tested a titanium base plate for its 81-mm. mortar, found that the lighter plate will permit it to reduce a mortar crew from four to three men. The Navy, which now carries a spare snorkel in submarines because they corrode so fast, has begun experimenting with non-corrosive titanium breathers...
...Chicago studio she passed her spare time making a needlepoint chair seat. During her working hours at the two conventions she opened 49 Westinghouse refrigerator doors, peered into 12 Westinghouse ovens, demonstrated 23 Westinghouse washing machines and dishwashers, turned on 42 Westinghouse television sets. Before it was over, she had been on the screen in all a total of 4½ hours...