Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...before you heard the shuffle on the sawdust." Lockheed Vice President L. E. Root turned to his boss, Bob Gross, and whispered something, the sibilants resounding across the quiet room. When Root was finished. Bob Gross walked to the blackboard and wrote "Lockheed." General Electric's Ralph Cordiner stood up and said: "Give us the money and stay out of our hair." Everyone else simply nodded. The next day a Marine courier arrived at the Special Projects office in the old Munitions Building and delivered top-secret orders to proceed with the Polaris acceleration...
...story roof garden above Benny's Manhattan House apartment for the fulfillment of a jazzman's dream. With Bhumibol and Benny were Gene Krupa on the skins, Teddy Wilson on the piano, Urbie Green on the trombone, Jonah Jones on trumpet, Red Norvo on vibes. The King stood them toe-to-toe for two hours, paid his royal respects to The Sheik of Araby (in 17 eardrumming choruses), savored Honeysuckle Rose, swung low On the Sunny Side of the Street. Near session's end, Benny decorated him with a new Selmer sax. The King will...
Foot & Jeep. The next day Léopoldville was a dead city. Shops and offices were closed, and the 15-story skyscrapers stood empty and silent. The deserted streets were patrolled by mutineers on foot or in Jeeps. From hunting for "invading Russians," the soldiers turned to hunting down their former officers-particularly those who were Flemings (i.e., Belgians whose language is related to Dutch), who have always been unpopular with the Congolese for their fancied relation to the South African Boers, whose language is derived from Dutch. Invading the main hotels along the Boulevard Albert, the soldiers drove...
...pitches, then hit it square, smashed it to splinters and ended the experiment. "One night during a game," recalls Steve. "I threw three hard ones over the catcher's head. Each ball went through the wire screen. Next night I was warming up near the screen. A fan stood up. 'Hey, Dalkowski,' he hollered. 'You pitching tonight?' I said it looked that way, and he muttered, 'Then I'm getting the hell out of here-and I'm taking my kids with...
...play was particularly notable in the hopeless desert of summer programing, but it would have stood out at any time as the first of a new series-The Robert Herridge Theater-that has long been one of the finest unseen programs ever assembled. Producer Hf-ridge began it over a year ago at CBS Films, a semi-independent TV packaging firm, but as show after show went on tape, the series looked so widely various that potential customers felt they did not know what they might be buying. In ten months, many agencies and sponsors smelled quality and kept their...