Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John O'Hara, who wrote those lines in a prologue to Sermons and Soda-Water, a trio of novellas published in 1960, likes to think of himself as a social historian whose principal medium happens to be fiction. When Historian Allan Nevins said that no one could really understand the U.S. of the 1930s without reading O'Hara's novel Butterfield 8, the author took it as the handsome compliment it was intended to be. The journalist in O'Hara ever lurks just beneath the surface of the novelist; Butterfield 8, in fact, was a piece...
...trio of SST engineers tried hard to overcome doubts. Though many airmen have feared that the SSTs would be useless for medium-range flights because of the lengthy ascents they require to reach cruising altitudes, the engineers insisted that the planes will be practical down to flights of only 600 miles, will be able to operate productively for ten hours a day v. nine for the present jets. They held out promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed...
...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...
Goldbottle's Boys. In Greenwich Village, a trio called Jim, Jake, and Joan appear at the Bitter End Café doing imaginary interviews. Sample...
Among conventional performers, Manhattan's Plaza 9 and the Chad Mitchell Trio have recorded an item called Barry's Boys...