Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted to horses and hoofers. On page eleven it is disclosed that Hardin's Broadway trademark is his collection of eleven gaudy vests, the latest being "a dove gray number with yellow tulips." Obviously, Waldo doesn't have a chance...
...Yellow and Raspberry. Ferdinand escapes Sergeant Matthew by becoming "Master of the Horse" to a French magician and his assistant, a lady named "The Flower of San Francisco." ("He sawed off my head every evening . . ." recounts the Flower, "and two matinees besides Rrr! . . . Rrr! . . . The blood flowed down to the orchestra . . . The spectators would faint!") But by this time Ferdinand has almost decided that the trenches of Flanders are safer and cozier than the walks of Lambeth...
Promptly at 6:45 a.m. in Mammoth, Ariz, one morning last week, ten boys and girls climbed aboard a bright yellow school bus. Behind the wheel as usual sat smiling little (106 Ibs.) Mrs. Catherine Ann Royale, 53. But this time, as she greeted her passengers, her smile was strained. To everyone on board, the strain was understandable: the yellow bus was making its rounds for the last time...
Boeing, which had worked at fever pitch to push its sleek silver, yellow and brown plane into the air ahead of schedule, was stunned. But company engineers and officials could remember a far more serious accident that failed to stop another Boeing fledgling: on a test flight in 1935, Boeing's prototype B-17 Flying Fortress, which became the greatest European-theater bomber of World War II, crashed and burned...
Died. J. (for Jacob) K. (for Kay) Lasser, 57, Manhattan tax expert, famed for his yellow-jacketed annual booklet Your Income Tax, which has sold more than 12 million copies since it was first published in 1936; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...