Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Totty is the answer to a Nieman Fellow's prayer. She knows where to find an apartment, how to corral baby-sitters, locations of good restaurants, and answers to the other 11,999 questions she gets the first day. And she has a small fee with the 12,000th answer--to coerce an outgoing newsman into putting a nickel into her parking meter...
Bothered by lack of funds and the fear of a "shabby, stingy bimillenary," Novelist Jules (Men of Good Will) Romains resigned his job as head of the planning committee to celebrate Paris' 2,000th anniversary next year...
...Next week I will receive my 1,000th copy of TIME. I have sworn 999 times never to read TIME again. But each time it appears in the mail box I get nosey to know what's going on in Asia, who the best ten Senators are, etc. As usual next month we'll subscribe again. If you ever stop piquing me, I'll know I'm washed...
...talk, i.e., the schoolchildren. But one has: Dr. Paul Witty of Northwestern University, originator and judge of the annual "Best Teacher" contest sponsored by the Quiz Kids radio show. For five years, he has been poring over letters from children about their teachers. Last week, after reading the 90,000th, he told teachers at Northwestern's summer school just what the youngsters think about them...
Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 42, who started out as a Chicago nightclub dancer even before the days of the Charleston, struck a pose for what she figured might be her 8,000th piece of cheesecake art. It had long since become a routine with her, she explained: "I just pull in my tummy, throw out my chest...