Word: two-year-old
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...spoon," says one acquaintance), he often dresses in flowered waistcoats and velvet-lapeled jackets with turned-back Edwardian cuffs, and a mink necktie. "It looks like a raccoon at my jugular," says Tynan. "People ask me, 'Who's your friend?' " At home, with his two-year-old daughter and his American-born wife Elaine Dundy, he sometimes wears leopard-skin pants...
Storm No. 1. The storm first struck when the State Insurance Commission disclosed that Houston's big, two-year-old Lloyd's of North America was operating at a $427,000 deficit. After looking into Lloyd's books, the commission decided that the company had been "utterly and hopelessly insolvent from its inception." It found that Ralph W. Hammonds, an ex-Olympic wrestler (1928), had borrowed $20,000 to start Lloyd's, added $20,000 of his own, sold more than 50,000 policies his first year, and paid back his loan with part...
...needed tightening. But I'll be doggoned if I wanted it that tight." Willie Molter was talking about a spunky little (15 hands, 875 Ibs.) grey colt named Determine, and Determine had barely been nosed out in the Trial by Hasty Road, 1953's champion two-year-old...
...something new. First he flooded the hall with the singing airs of Mozart's Adagio in E. Then, tucking his fiddle under his chin again and staring intently at his stubby fingers, he launched into the amiable and sometimes pyrotechnic moods of Gian-Carlo Menotti's two-year-old Violin Concerto. As always, his tone was luxuriant, his pitch impeccable, and he brought the music to full-blooded life. From Manhattan's experienced audience, the modern work drew down an extra round of applause...
...forest rangers had a problem with leopards, which were eating all the pigs, which had been imported to eat caterpillars, which had been eating pine trees, and the rangers still needed the leopards to keep down the baboon population. On checking, the item turned out to be a two-year-old false rumor. Sometimes, however, an item improves in checking. For example, when w?e double-checked a suggestion about a Boston dancer who had consumed a monstrous, $12 restaurant breakfast, we found it was not only true, but that she had done it again a week later (TIME...