Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bright spots of sunshine outline the ports on the cabin wall and floor. But outside of these spots of light, there is darkness in the cabin. If he moves his hand away from this shaft of light, it becomes invisible in the darkness. There is a sharp demarcation between light and darkness in space. Peering down through the earth's milky cloud veil, he will recognize continents and oceans, even make out objects one-sixth of a mile long or wide [e.g., the Pentagon...
...slice the team would love to touch is Broadway, but Stoller (who writes most of the music) complains that "nobody has offered us a decent book." In the meantime, Jerry and Mike go on helping the kids to identify. "Who's always writin' on the wall?/ Who's always goofin' in the hall?/ Who's always throwin' spitball?" Why, Charlie Brown, of course. Says Leiber: "If Cole Porter were starting out today, he'd have a tough time...
...principle, handball dates from the first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly...
Running or just puttering, U.S. hand-ballers compete on courts ranging from a single concrete wall in a Brooklyn park to the four-walled, all-glass, air-conditioned, $32,000 pleasure dome given to an Aurora, Ill. Y.M.C.A. by Robert W. Kendler, founder and president of the U.S. Handball Association and chief evangelist of a sport of evangelists. Kendler lives for handball; on the side, he is a Chicago millionaire (building construction). Kendler bristles at the imputation that his game is a lowbrow cousin of squash, can point to such distinguished handballers as Literary Critic Lionel Trilling and television...
What had everyone concerned was the biggest public participation in the market since the '20s; a recent survey by the exchange showed that 25% of those interviewed were interested in the market v. 9% a year ago. Nevertheless, many Wall Streeters felt that the warnings were being overdone. Said A. Charles Schwartz, senior partner of Bache & Co.: "It is stupid, after years of a publicity campaign to get more people to buy stocks, to come out now and blow the whistle...