Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powerful, easygoing Pancho, who played mostly by ear when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va. he finally took one from the old master...
Moviemaker Rossen, a short, chunky man of 41, is also expert at a harsher realism: the art of getting your own way in Hollywood. By combining talent with a tough-mindedness born of his rough & tumble boyhood on Manhattan streets, Rossen has won the scenaristis goal of controlling his own picture right through to the final editing...
Recruiting for the expedition after the wealth of Cibola was brisk, and the viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray...
Friar's Secret. Before they had gone far, Coronado's men began to distrust everything Fray Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back...
...Hara soon found a way out. He heard that Boston's Packers' Laboratory, a research company, had developed frankfurters made from tuna, and he made a deal to market them. He is now producing 1,000,000 franks a day and has sold his entire output for the present to a chain of grocery stores. The franks come only in cans as Davis has not yet worked out a way to preserve their flavor in the bulk. The price...