Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant and quiet resort town with a population of 3,000. But these days some of the lively types taking advantage of the small-town atmosphere and the balmy climate have more on their minds than surfing and suntans. They are magazine editors-many in their mid-20s-holding story conferences for two new magazines, Psychology Today and Careers Today. Says Nicolas H. Charney, 27, who founded both of them: "It's a very synergistic environment...
Playwright Sean O'Casey was an ag ing angry young man in the '20s when he wrote Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. He was an angry old man of 69 when he wrote Coclc-A-Doodle Cock-A-Doodle the play he called his favorite. Audiences and producers have not generally agreed with his assessment; the play has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written, and its runs have been short...
...with an Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents and RCA Radiolas only began to climb when magazine ads of the '20s proclaimed that "the thrill of radio is no longer in getting 50 stations in a night, for radio has now conquered distance and turns to music...
...result, countless young reporters, would-be lady novelists, daydreaming clerks and other aspiring writers around the country yearned to "make the Post." In the mid-'20s, unsolicited manuscripts poured in at the rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...
Died. George Lewis, 68, jazz clarinetist of early New Orleans vintage who started strutting to funerals with his $4 clarinet when he was 17, played with such jazz lights of the '20s and '30s as Buddy Petit and Kid Howard, later exported the doleful sound of French Quarter blues to Europe and Japan in a series of boisterously successful tours; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...