Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miincheners happily hurdle the language barrier to see themselves through Feehan's sharp eyes, pick up tips on fashionable fads, and be lectured on the proper way to broil a steak (rare-to-blue) or mix a martini (8-to-1). Feared or respected by every headwaiter in town, and greeted by readers on the street, Feehan long ago reached the goal of every U.S. columnist of his stripe: he is as famous in his city as any celebrity he writes about...
...light district, chewed out American M.P.s who do not "help teen-age soldiers being openly exploited by hardened harlots." But, generally, Expatriate Feehan sticks to chiding German frauleins on their spraddle-footed dancing, and American housewives on their hair curlers, calling the roll of celebrities who pass through town, and pointing the way to good food and drink, e.g., for Balkan dishes, "go to Bei Milan's in the shadow of the Rathaus...
...hardly seemed a happy Homecoming Day for the Rice Institute Owls. Texas A. & M. was in town, and the awesome Aggies were flaunting a 14-game winning streak, ranking No. 1 in the nation and riding roughshod toward the Cotton Bowl on the broad shoulders of John David Crow, everybody's Ail-American and the hardest running halfback in college football. Short of calling on some friendly farmer to shoot down Crow, the Owls figured to be pecked to pieces...
Pick of the Quick. Angel of the Albright is a peppery Buffalo booster, Woolworth Heir and Banker Seymour H. Knox, who, back in the 1930s, captained his home-town East Aurora polo team in international matches. Putting up $100,000 in 1939 to launch the Contemporary Room, "Shorty" Knox, who had previously boasted little more than one lone Utrillo, was soon head over heels in love with modern art. In the last eleven years, Yaleman ('20) Knox has donated 75 paintings and sculptures, of which more than half are products of the current decade...
...little (pop. 600) town of Shippingport, Pa. this week, a man in a white protective suit will step alone into the spotless puzzle box of the world's most powerful atomic reactor. After he shuts twelve one-ton doors and gives the final signal, giant control rods will lift slowly out of the uranium reactor core to start a sustained chain reaction. At the moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years...