Word: tornadoes
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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...
...When the tornado hit nearby Udall. Gart went into action. During the next 50-odd hours, he directed the activities of five of his reporters, contacted some 20 Kansas photographers for picturesand coordinated the storm coverage of two TIME staff correspondents, Don Connery of the Chicago Bureau on the ground, and Frank McCulloch overhead in a chartered plane from Dallas. Gart was still feeding copy to TIME in the small hours Saturday as a new storm lashed Wichita, hail rattled on the Eagle windows and the radio blared new tornado warnings...
...long Aileen worried about what clothes to wear because of the contrary weather, which changed from rain to sultry heat to dusty winds; eventually, she decided on a summery nylon print dress. As the party began, thunder rumbled in the southwest, and a woman said uneasily that tornado warnings were out- clear to Texas...
...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...