Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...define. Don McNeill explains the show as "just a guy talking, then another guy talking, then a couple of people singing, and an orchestra. It ain't anything." But in 20 years his salary has risen from $50 to nearly $4,000 a week, paid by four sponsors (Swift & Co., Philco, O-Cedar and Toni). For this stipend, McNeill gives his listeners four "calls to breakfast," written to "snappy" tunes. Between songs, Don keeps things lively with what he calls "witty, quaint sayings." Samples: "Contrary to common belief, most women can keep a secret-it's the women...
...early lead. Italy's World Champion Alberto Ascari, driving a 4.5-liter Ferrari, whirled one lap (about 8½ miles) at a record 111.5 m.p.h. American Johnny Fitch, in a Briggs Cunningham Special, set a kilometer record at 155 m.p.h. But the race was not to the early swift...
...Indonesians like to call themselves "The Children of the East." Their cultural values were formed during a thousand years of Brahminist-Buddhist teaching, culminating in the great, 14th century Hindu-Javanese civilization of Madjapahit. Then came the swift, peaceful penetration of Islam. Securing a firm but gentle grip on the islands (Indonesia is now the world's largest Moslem nation), Islam took on a subtle duality. Moslem mosques assumed Hindu temple forms; followers were called to prayer on Oriental gongs. While putting on the cloak of Islam, the Indonesians remained essentially Eastern; nor has their character changed under...
...force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters through tunnels to the Pacific. Energy produced by the waters' swift drop to the sea will almost triple the output of the famed U.S. Hoover...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, a W. C. Fields nightcap, is long, loaded, and likely to leave its imbiber dizzy. In swift succession, Fields falls out of an airplane and into a romance, he rushes an innocent woman to a maternity hospital, and he intimidates every child who comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean...