Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet suburb of Paris, Yugoslavia's former Queen Alexandra, 32, opened a letter from her husband, exiled King Peter. Reading the King's firm refusal to drop his divorce suit, Alexandra drew blood from one wrist with a penknife, later declared she would have finished the job if, just then, her aunt, Greece's Queen Frederika, had not phoned. When Peter heard how his wife had been saved by the bell, he growled: "This is the fourth time . . . It's nothing serious...
...baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes as the Globetrotter Gadget Bag ("Leather-covered sponge rubber bumper for carrying against body," $42.50) ; Steineck A-B-C Camera ("Straps to the wrist . . . brilliant finder for sighting at waist level," $150); Flexing Powelites ("Portable Sunshine . . . adjust your lights to any desired position...
...amateur strides on, gadget bag bumping against his body, camera on his wrist, portable sunshine at his elbow, the little darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...
...father, she became a prostitute, picking up men in bars, giving $2 apiece to cab drivers who brought customers to her. She charged $20 a night. Neighbors complained of wild parties in her home. Several months ago, in a drunken scuffle, she shot a traveling salesman in the wrist; he declined to prosecute. Bonnie Heady was just the girl for Carl Hall. He moved in with...
Last week life imitated art again. The U.S. Army Signal Corps announced that it has developed a wrist radio with a receiving range of 40 miles. A wire (hidden under the wearer's sleeve) connects the radio with an amplifier that looks like a hearing aid. The radio parts are minuscule -the mercury battery is not much larger than the point of a pencil, and the whole mechanism weighs 2 ⅝oz. Name of the Army's wrist radio: the Dick Tracy...