Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a dragged-out, losing fight to keep his son, Assistant Rector William Howard Melish, 38, on the staff of Brooklyn Heights's red stone Church of the Holy Trinity. Young Melish's busy left-wing activities (e.g., he was chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision...
Visiting this happy home of spoiled son and spoiling mother is a young Pennsylvania girl. Obviously from the southernmost part of the state, Carol Wheeler talks with a drawl that sounds as if she is reading from large block-capitaled signs in each wing...
According to the "Army and Navy Journal," the Air Force is planning to go even farther. The Air Force's plan, still being studied by Pentagon brass, calls for complete elimination of segregation. All Negro units, including the 332nd Fighter Wing, are to be deactivated, and their rated personnel assigned to other Air Force units all over the world. The non-rated but promising men would be sent to service schools for more training, and the "men of no promise" separated from the Air Force...
Indoor Drainage. The most startling feature of Breuer's house was the "butterfly roof" which made space for a second-story bedroom under one wing and (by substituting a single indoor drainpipe) did away with outside gutters and drains. Despite such practical advantages, traditionalists might object that the tilting roof gave the inside of the house a slightly seasick air. Like the exterior walls, the ceilings were largely finished with unpainted cypress siding, which had a warm, luxurious look. The floors were of bluestone flagging and designed for radiant heating coils. Breuer, whose knack of combining materials to bring...
...prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last Aug. 29. Another 202 broke a wing spar the same day but landed safely...