Word: tornadoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHILE Schoolteacher Aileen Holtje in Udall, Kan. worried about the weather and what dress to wear to her wedding shower (see Big Twister in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tornado-wise Murray Gart of the Wichita Eagle shared her uneasiness. Gart, 30, a displaced Bostonian who is news editor of the Eagle, and TIME'S Wichita correspondent, knew it was impossible to outguess nature when the tails of twisters flap in the sky like shreds of a tattered flag. He could only wait...
...Wyndham Lewis' books, shows just why Lewis is self-condemned never to revel in bookclub riches. It demands steady concentration and hard thinking, strikes through to the heart only by way of the head. The book is what its hero Rene Harding calls "a taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from him by the BBC. Though nearly blind as the result of a tumor involving the optic nerve, Lewis still manages to write...
Beneath the calm on Formosa and the studied casualness on the Helena was the knowledge that the land and the ship and the fleet lay in the core of a diplomatic tornado that was swirling around the world. Two hundred and fifty miles away, the mangled bodies of Chinese Nationalists killed in the Communist Chinese attack on the islet of Yikiang were tossed ashore by the turbulent waters of the East China Sea. There was little calm, outward or inward, in Washington or in London or in the United Nations headquarters at New York. In the world's capitals...
...audience is not merely stimulated, it is all but electrocuted. Even the huge CinemaScope screen seems hardly big enough to carry the mass scenes. And yet, through the pelt of colors and the whirl of action, Carmen herself holds the eye-like a match burning steadily in a tornado. Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given-and sometimes even more than she really has to give...
...Weather Bureau thinks that its jump-line detectors can be made in quantity for less than $100 each. Spotted through tornado areas in police stations and other always-open institutions, they should enable the weathermen to keep track of each jump-line as it moves crosscountry. Since the average speed of the tornado-triggering wave is only about about 35 m.p.h., the weatherman should have time to give plenty of warning...