Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spends his spare time playing (violin, saxophone, clarinet) with the ''Frank Derrick Orchestra," makes another $4,000 a year...
Died. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 71, British World War I cartoonist who spent his spare time in the muddy trenches in France drawing "Old Bill," the sad-eyed, shaggy-headed, walrus-mustached embodiment of the dogged British Tommy, earned a fortune as Old Bill endeared himself to readers around the world; in Norton, England...
Died. Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, 89, spare, retiring biologist who pioneered (1907) in growing cells independent of the organism from which they were taken, stimulated a pupil, Dr. John Enders, to use the same tissue-culture method to grow a polio virus (1949) that led to the Salk vaccine, taught biology and zoology (1907-38) at Yale; in New Haven, Conn...
Like other famed rocket labs, e.g., Germany's Peenemünde, J.P.L. was founded by eager amateurs. In the middle 1930s, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman encouraged a group of Caltech students to design high-altitude sounding rockets. For a while they had no money except what they could spare from their own pockets, but in 1937 a meteorology student named Weld Arnold offered to raise $1,000. Says Dr. Frank J. Malina, one of the original rocketeers: "Arnold was a very quiet person who came and went in a mysterious way. He told me he lived in Burbank...
...lighter (25%) than the Caddy's previous power plant, yet stepped up power by 7% to 160 h.p., and stretched fuel economy at first by 15%-and eventually to 19 miles per gallon. But Cole still hankered to perfect a rear engine for cars. In his spare time he designed a tank powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed engine (the same kind as in the Corvair). When the Korean war broke out, the Army grabbed the plan for its T-41 tank, and Cole was made boss of Cadillac's huge plant in Cleveland. There his idea...