Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only three days for a short story, he is currently working on 16 assignments. He makes from $40,000 to $50,000 a year. Less skillful practitioners resort to ruses. Before he gave up freelancing to become the assistant articles editor of the New York Times Magazine, Gerald Walker used to dream up devices that he called "How to succeed in freelance writing without really writing." He would interview some 20 children of celebrities, for example, and ask them to tell what their daddies did. He would then string the precocious quotes together and sell them to Good Housekeeping...
...your picture caption "Inchon landing, October 1950: Will history repeat?": Hank Walker, who risked his neck to get the picture, and the late meticulous planner, General Douglas Mac-Arthur, who risked his reputation in carrying out the landing, would be pained indeed at your arbitrary postponement of the event. September 15, 1950, was the only date within months when the enormous tides at Inchon, some 36 feet from ebb to flood, crested sufficiently to permit the landing to be made-successfully, as this former Marine can gratefully attest from firsthand experience...
...laboratory, is the survivor of two prototypes. Needle-nosed, delta-winged and resembling two giant praying mantises, both of the 6-engine jets had attained a speed of Mach 3 in tests. Then the second and more sophisticated of the two crashed in June 1966 after Test Pilot Joe Walker's F-104 Starfighter jet brushed the giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that are being used in the development...
Broadway does cherish one "original"-George Abbott. At the ripe old age of 80, he is directing an updated Hellzapoppin (1938-41), this time with Soupy Sales and Nancy Walker. Another Abbott entry: a musical version of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, featuring Tom Bosley (Fiorello!). For Abbott, the shows are the 109th and 110th of his career...
...Walker and his colleagues have also turned to analyzing uranium fission and cosmic-ray tracks in meteorites. In addition to fixing the age of such extraterrestrial missiles, says Walker, "tracks in these objects are giving us very accurate information about happenings 4.6 billion years ago, including possibilities of how chemical elements and the planets were formed." To enlarge these studies, balloons are now being lofted to capture cosmic-ray tracks. And when astronauts return with lunar soil one of these days, Walker & Co. will be on hand to help date the moon...