Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flush many birds but drop few of them. Some, like Texas' Tom] Connally, dismissed the whole project as "chasing crap-shooters." And many professional crimebusters took a slightly amused view of the committee's melodramatic approach to the Mafia, a scapegoat dear to the hearts of Sunday-supplement writers and students of the devious Dr. Fu Manchu. But no one 'could charge Kefauver with pulling his shots on political grounds: his investigation into the unaccountable wealth of the Democrats' candidate for Cook County sheriff, Police Captain Dan ("Tubbo") Gilbert, unquestionably cost Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
...first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...Women have taken over the responsibility for making America tick," Jordan said. He suggested that the seminars should supplement courses in the curriculum by providing "Knowledge of realities." They will be open to Radcliffe students only...
Most U.S. military men agreed that greater reliance on direct air supply would be a vital supplement to sea and land transport in any major future war. The most extreme advocates of air supply maintained that it was already possible to fly combat forces to any point in the world and keep them supplied. Nobody had argued along these lines more persistently than Combat Cargo Command's General Tunner, who believes that "We can fly anything, anywhere, any time...
...your "Yale Supplement" issue of November 25, 1950, on page one you have a photograph which is a prime illustration of how pictures can lie. The picture purports to show three Yalies dressed in raccoon coats, and hence to illustrate a fashion trend at Yale. One of these men is a stranger to me, but I am willing to be that he is no Yale man, because the two with he is shown are fellow Princeton '45 classmates of mine. The fellow in the middle is Jim Mills, and on the right stands Pete Throop. Both got their raccoon coats...