Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving the politicians to work out details with his ministers of finance and economy, the president flew to Vina del Mar for a weekend of swimming, tennis, and Brahms recordings at the summer palace. Then, starting the engines of his cinnamon-colored DC-3 himself, he flew back to Santiago...
While the best many another U.S. symphony musician can hope for is a 20-week season, the Boston musicians, most of whom also play in the Boston "Pops" and at Tanglewood in the summer, get 49 paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...
...purple trunks, Joe Louis still looked like the best heavyweight on two feet. Nursing a scuffed eyelid in his dressing room after the match, he was noncommittal when sport-writers asked him whether he was testing himself for a comeback, perhaps in a championship go against Charles next summer...
...proof of his penitence, Alfonso transformed the royal summer palace at Burgos' Las Huelgas del Rey into a cloister administered by the white-robed Order of Cistercian nuns. The cloister, Alfonso decreed, would also be the burial site for the dead of the House of Castile; the first of the royal bodies, that of baby Prince Sancho, was entombed there...
...million-volt betatron installed last summer at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago has already proved to be a valuable instrument in the treatment of cancer. The first patient treated with it (TIME, Sept. 5) was Fordyce Hotchkiss, 72, a retired Railway Express employee who had an egg-sized cancer of the larynx. Last week Hotchkiss was thin and nervous, but his cancer was pronounced "healed...