Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petard. In Lockport, N.Y., police got a complaint that Walnut Street was a haven for speeders, set up a radar check point, nabbed speeding Mrs. Jeanne E. Spaulding, the complainant...
...that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain's Rootes Group claims will run on "anything from lighter fuel to Scotch whisky...
...could be more suitable for the mostly ceremonial position than Vanier, a courtly, erect soldier-diplomat full of years and his country's honors. Major General Vanier's family emigrated to New France from Normandy 300 years ago. Tall, mustached, old-worldly, he walks with a black walnut cane, a reminder of the leg he lost (and the D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered...
Died. Joe Cook, 69, zany vaudevillian who juggled six Indian clubs, devised complicated Seltzer-squirting, walnut-cracking machines, brought the house down by telling why he would not imitate four Ha| waiian ukulele players; in Clinton...
...Chris Smith never bothered with high school; instead, he shoved off as a deckhand on the steamer Arundel, worked summers on the lake boats. But as vacationing sportsmen came to Algonac, Hank and Chris began building small boats for rent. Hank and he would search the woods for a walnut stump, dig it out and work up a naturally curved boat stem from stump and roots...