Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working night, he and his B.W. (for beautiful wife) get home about 4 a.m. By dawn the doorman of his apartment hotel hails a passing taxi so that Wilson's column can make its 7 a.m. deadline...
...traits early set him apart from fellow Broadway columnists. He liked to quote people accurately, even if they were talking in their cups. And he did not set himself up as an international answer man. The female form does not loom as large in Wilson's column as it once did. Now he covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese...
...daredevil, not-so-young Britons flew faster last week than men had ever flown before in level flight. At Herne Bay, England, a Gloster Meteor jet plane, piloted by Group Captain H. J. ("Willie") Wilson, 37, of the R.A.F. made four 70-mile runs at an average speed of 606 miles per hour.-In the same type of plane, Eric Greenwood, 38, of the Gloster Aircraft Co. flew nearly as fast. For a while Greenwood thought he had the record. When photographic timing showed him beaten, he was ready with the British sportsman's typical comment: "Really? Good...
With some planes, the shock wave may form at speeds as low as 550 m.p.h. Captain Wilson's Meteor was probably designed specially to push the danger limit upward. Even so, he did not dare use the full power of his jets...
...young men Woodrow Wilson hired to inaugurate his famed Princeton preceptorial system, many became noted educators. Nine were subsequently made chairmen of their departments, four became deans...