Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman of the board of Harper & Bros., Cass Canfield '19 of New York, is also a member of the board of directors of Grosset & Dunlap, Bantam Books, and Freedom House...
Unlike Douglas' new A4D attack bomber, which was announced as soon as it rolled out (TIME, June 14), Lockheed's new bantam has been flying secretly since February, was in the air exactly one year after the prototype contract was signed. Though Lockheed says that the plane can be produced 2½ times as fast, at half the cost of North American's F-100, Lockheed scouts the idea that it is either underarmed or stripped down. Because of new rockets, each of which packs the killing power of half a dozen World War II machine guns...
Divorced. Billy Rose, 54, bantam Manhattan showman (The Immoralist); by his second wife and onetime aquastar, Eleanor Holm Rose, 40; after 14 years of marriage, two of court battles, no children ; in Las Vegas...
...Finns, unveiling a modified "aerodynamic" technique, got their first triumph. Leaning out over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland's Veikko Hakulinen by 26 seconds in the 30-kilometer (about 18.6 miles) cross-country race. Asked which race he preferred, Kusin answered curtly: "The ones...
...Crosley-Bantam...