Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The New York Yankees, often accused of buying up all the best ballplayers, tried a new talent-grabbing trick. Yankee scouts spotted Billy Joe Moore, 24, playing first base for the Oklahoma State Prison team. Though Moore, doing a seven-year stretch for burglary, is not due for release...
Within an hour after Schine reported to him for duty, Miller related, the private suggested that the captain might want "to make a little trip to Florida." Miller cut him off in midsentence, admonishing him that "it was improper for officers to accept any kind of favors . . . from trainees." One...
Why did the aggressive youngsters get into flying instead of business or the professions? One typical answer: "Ever since I was a boy. I wanted to be a fighter pilot. It's more than a job; it's a sport." Having won his wings, the ace strove to...
Taruc kept the appointment in the very barrio from which he had escaped. "From a distance, I spotted his lanky figure," reported Aquino afterwards. "He was standing alone, silhouetted against the morning sky . . . He met me, smiling." The two men shook hands, and Aquino said: "Do you unconditionally accept the...
In Madrid to relax at the bullfights, Author Ernest Hemingway claimed that his two plane crashes in Africa (TIME, Feb. 1) had come closer to killing him than anyone, including indestructible Poppa himself, suspected at the time. A ship's doctor, on the voyage from Africa to Italy, examined...