Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove his courage. When he finally does, rifle and bayonet in hand, the irony of Fate-and of military life-turns his act of bravery into his undoing: the generals consider him a bad commander for dashing about the battlefield "like a private." Even after the army has bowler-hatted him, human and humorous Scotsman Strang clings to his belief in the Many-Splendoured Thing-his phrase for honor, decency and civilization. British Author Marshall (The White Rabbit, Father Malachy's Miracle) keeps his story moving almost too fast. But he has a great ear for the speech...
...Bowler & Pince Nez. Bidault comes from central France, the son of an insurance man. He taught himself to read at six, and was educated by the Jesuits. Bidault was deeply influenced by a scholarship prize he won at the age of 15: a book on Montalembert, the 19th century political philosopher who strove to fuse Roman Catholicism with Liberalism. Bidault went on to the Sorbonne, then to teaching (history and geography) in a lycee. In his 30s Bidault looked so young that a proctor at the school once reprimanded him for smoking; he took to wearing a bowler...
Oldtimers at the Metropolitan Opera knew McNair Ilgenfritz only as the man who regularly rented Box No. 1. Other people recognized him as a retiring little man who wore spats and a bowler set at a rather rakish angle, and spent his life commuting between Paris, Newport and Philadelphia. They also knew that he liked to write music, and that he played the piano at parties and played well...
...Jewel City Bowl in Glendale, Calif., 300 spectators gathered for an unusual bowling event. They had come not to watch bowlers but machines. As a bowler sent his ball crashing into the tenpins, the ball hit the cushion, set off an automatic switch. Almost before a spectator could say "Strike," an intricate machine swept the alley clean of pins, set them in place on a rack, dropped a second set of pins into place, and sent the ball back to the bowler. It was an impressive demonstration of the American Machine & Foundry Co.'s new automatic pinspotting machine...
...rookies took their places on the Hill. Vice President Nixon swore in Alton A. Lennon, 46, North Carolina lawyer, as successor (by gubernatorial appointment) to the late Senator Willis Smith. House Speaker Martin swore in James B. Bowler, 78, Chicago alderman, as successor (by victory in a by-election) to the late 23-term Representative Adolph Sabath...