Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Igor ("Cholly") Cassini, his Manhattan opposite number, Lait does most of his work at night, gleaning items from bar tenders, waiters and customers in Mike Romanoff's restaurant and at Giro's, the Mocambo and the other "Sunset Strip" clubs. So far he has stuck to items about society celebrities (the Herricks, the Whitneys, the Rockefellers, etc.) and feature stories about forgotten heiresses and play boys. But some of his pieces have sent Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, pillar of the Examiner's society staff and of local society, flouncing into the editor's office...
...hours, writes his stuff in his Manhattan duplex, tries it out on his wife and a secretary. He is pleased when people compare him to ex-Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, thinks "Pegler at his best is the best technical writer I ever read." But Ruark does not aim to get stuck to any tar-baby, like labor-baiting, Roosevelt-hating...
...Forces removed all paint from its P-80s. The tiniest chip or crack might endanger the plane by roughening the air flow. In a test flight, according to one group of experts, a gnat squashed against the leading edge of a P-80's wing. It stuck, and behind it a sound wave hammered perilous dimples in the skin...
What Apra Wants. In some ways he was still the old Haya. Throughout his tour he still stuck up for continental unity. "What I am fighting about," he cried, "is that in this hemisphere there is a United States of the north and disunited states of the south. Small and big can never live together. We must make ourselves big by uniting. We Apristas are against customs barriers and want political and economic cooperation among all Latin American countries...
...trial of handsome, lady-killing Neville Heath rambled through six extravagant columns. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail had elbow room, too; its portrait of the gallows-bound Heath was in the best Fleet Street tradition (he looked and posed as a gentleman, but after all, his handkerchief stuck just a little too far out of his pocket, and his R.A.F. necktie was always "a trifle too aggressively knotted...