Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert Raymond Mayes was a Hearst editor in the old tradition-bellowing, belligerent, brilliant. He joined the empire in 1927, became editor of the money-making monthly Good Housekeeping in 1938. Says a freelancer who has felt his whip: "Mayes ran that magazine like the overseer of a chain gang." He did everything from assigning articles to writing heads, often refashioned passages of fiction without bothering to tell the author. His editorial recipe served the housewife a hasty pudding of bland fiction, beauty tips, and advice ranging from babies to plumbing. This year Good Housekeeping has a circulation...
PLEASE VOTE FOR INTEGRATION TO HELP US HAVE EQUALITY. But in the South that kind of picture is calculated only to whip up the fears that "equality" implies to segregationists...
...with It"? Still, the marks came, saw, smelled, paid through the nose and did not complain. But on the rest of the lot, business was lousy. End-of-season weather was spoiling it, even for the pig iron (Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, whip, etc.), the moneymaking rides that most carnies consider the backbone of their show. The crowd-pulling mittcamps (palm-reading and pocket-picking gypsies) were gone. The gypsies had pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie...
Columbia won her deciding race without the help of canny Corny Shields, the 63-year-old grey fox of Long Island Sound, who quit his advisory role to whip her crew into shape and to take the helm himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual...
...women's golf, one of the best short games belongs to 20-year-old Anne Quast of Marysville. Wash., a pretty, dark-eyed Stanford University coed. Last week at the 58th U.S. Amateur championship in Darien, Conn., personable Anne used string-straight approaches and deadeye putts to whip the field...