Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Houston Oilman James Marion ("Silver Dollar") West was a real-life version of the flamboyant Texas millionaire found in jokes, cartoons, movies and satirical novels. Worth an estimated $100 million, Jim West habitually sported a diamond-studded Texas Ranger badge and a brace of bolstered pistols dangling from a gold-buckled belt. He spent much of his adult life playing cops and robbers, riding around town with Houston policemen in a Cadillac equipped with two-way radio, four telephones and built-in racks for assorted firearms. Living up to his nickname, he had outsize pockets tailored into his trousers...
...Joey. The Broadway musical had a faster book than the film version but then it didn't have Frank Sinatra (TIME...
While sounding out a bill to establish an official version of the larynx-bursting national anthem, a House Judiciary subcommittee listened to an expert on the subject: "Star-Spangled Soprano" Lucy Monroe, who has sung the anthem some 5,000 times (by her count) at World Series games, conventions and other public gatherings. Her recommendation: lower a few of the top notes, maybe, but "I feel strongly the basic melody should not be altered...
...vision of the world running to nothing, like horses on a wintry road at night, and a prayer: "God's mercy/On the wild/ Ginger Man." But before this end is reached, the reader, surfeited on Joyce and ginger ale, may well want to conclude on a new version of Mrs. Bloom's last word to the reader of Ulysses: "No and I said...
...private office: "Yes, sir." Twenty minutes later, Carl Vinson emerged, hat on head and cane in hand, and tossed a final instruction over his shoulder. "Fix it up," said he, "so I can read it tomorrow." With that, he went home, leaving Nate Twining to work on a revised version of the Eisenhower Administration's plan for reorganizing the Defense Department...