Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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He knew all of them by their voices, but it was the first time that "Juliet Yankee 1" had seen the nine U.S. amateur radio operators who traveled to Washington to visit him at Blair House (see THE WORLD). While JY-1, who off the air is known as Jordan...
Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 69, plans to set out from Plymouth, England, this week for an assault on the singlehanded seaman's equivalent of the four-minute mile. In the improbable event that everything goes as he hopes it will, Chichester and his 57-ft. Gypsy Moth V will...
Oscar Epfs was the euphonious name of the painter whose one-man show just closed at the Librairie Marthe Voshy in Paris. Only eight of the 40 pictures were sold, but that was pure velvet to Artist Epfs. He is actually Lawrence Durrell, author of the Alexandria Quartet, and it...
Expatriate Zillionaire Paul Getty, 78 this week, gave his annual Christmas party for children at his mansion in Surrey, England. The moppets, including 21 boys and girls from a Reading orphanage, played games organized by a professional entertainer, and so delighted their host that they more than made up for...
NO, there is no escaping Christmas cards, not even in these days of recession. For better or worse, they have become one of America's unavoidable, conventional and yet curiously revelatory means of communication. Seemingly carriers of good will, their messages are both specialized and highly descriptive of the...