Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star attraction of the State Department's Cultural Exchange Program, candidly entertained Japanese and U.S. newsmen at a one-hour pressoiree. Asked if he is now penciling a novel. Mississippi Squire Faulkner harrumphed: "No. I have reached the age now (57) when I work only when the weather is bad." Why did he write Sanctuary? 'I wanted a horse, and I heard that people were making money by writing novels." After the formal conference, the newsmen hung around for more Faulknerisms and free-flowing heat-chasers. Any comment on Henry James? "One of the nicest old ladies...
...LIFE photographers often go to extraordinary lengths. Samples: ¶ On the frozen fastness of the Canadian arctic, LIFE Photographer Fritz Goro and Reporter James Goode worked for seven weeks in silent isolation, photographing a corner of the world few men had ever seen before, where the weather extremes far surpass the farthest reaches of the arctic. Their radio could receive messages but could not send. Movement was so difficult that it once took them five days to reach a photographic objective barely ten miles from their two-tent camp. For another five days, rising water in the spring thaw completely...
...severe reprimand," Wintle was packed off to a staff job in the Middle East. But soon he was turning up at the bar in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, sipping a favorite gin concoction called "Suffering Bathwater," sporting an impressive beard, and dropping remarks like "Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave. On his third...
Global Meteorology. As soon as a satellite is circling on its orbit, immediate and practical benefits will flow down from it. Solar radiation, now only partially understood, is responsible for the earth's weather. The additional information reported by a satellite will be of enormous value to meteorologists. So will its reports on the earth's cloud cover. They may result in global weather forecasts good for months ahead. Information on solar rays and particles will clear up many mysteries about the electrified layers in the atmosphere that affect radio transmission...
...atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor is a standard of sanity to which all Americans may profitably repair...