Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny New South Wales, as in Southern California, it is near-perfect tennis weather all year long. Oswald William Thomas Sidwell liked to play tennis as much as the next youngster, but figured that his real sporting future lay on a golf course. Then the war gave Billy Sidwell a chance to play tennis against G.I.s in Britain. He did so well that he decided to stick to the game. Last week all Australia had reason to be thankful...
Battle Stations on U.S.S. Leyte (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC Television). Action on board a U.S. aircraft carrier off the Atlantic coast: a televised report of the actual launching and receiving of planes and of offensive and defensive tactics. In case of bad weather, the show will go on at the same time Monday or Tuesday...
...Gulf with seismographs and gravity meters to look for salt dome structures (where salt domes are, there is usually oil), finally spotted one in the waters off Grand Isle, La. (see map, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). An oceanographer who helped plan the Normandy invasion also helped Humble. He gathered the weather data for a stormproof drilling platform that took over 5,000,000 pounds of steel to build and whose pilings were sunk 197 feet into the Gulf bottom...
Next to London's weather, the thing that bothered Californians most was the look on Londoners' faces; to West Coasters they seemed vaguely uninterested in life. One night on a London bus, a Los Angeles miler turned a somersault and hung upside down from two straps. "It worked," he boasted later. "Their mouths dropped open all the way down to their knees...
Winter Week. In the middle of the hot weather slump, when 52nd Street nightclub owners looked glumly at rows of empty tables and cried the blues, Nick's joint on West Tenth Street was having what the surprised musicians themselves called a "winter week." The iron-man stunt was giving Bobby (who, like all hot jazzmen, is an authority on hard times) some memorable paydays. ABC pays him $165 a week for a 40-hour week for 20 hours of actual playing. Grace Rongetti, Nick's widow, pays better than that, complaining only when Bobby gets tied...