Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Turned Around. In all, nine defendants named Roosevelt Carlos Hurd as the trigger man. Tough, bespectacled little Mr. Hurd denied that he had shot Willie Earle. Said his account of the lynching: "Somebody fired a gun two or three times. I don't know who fired the gun. I did not have a gun. . . . When I seen they were going to kill the Negro, I just turned around because I did not want to see it happen...
...nearly done now, though. We thought we'd never get started this year what with all the rain." The only emotional uplift McTernan gets out of serving 311 years of tradition, according to his own account, is wondering what famous person will be up front on Com- mencement...
...done up in some brownish makeup and a number of rather low-necked costumes; Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as a couple of millionaire ranchowner's sons, one all good, the other all bad. A flock of other high-priced pieces of cinema talent help add to the expense account, if not overly much to the quality of the film-Herbert Marshall, for instance, though listed prominently in the cast, makes only a fleeting appearance in two or three scenes in the first reel before being killed...
Tobacco sales were down to about half of normal. Hundreds of Britons had stopped smoking and thousands evidently wanted to stop. London's Daily Mail, which published a tongue-in-cheek account of a man's being hypnotized into a distaste for smoking, was swamped with letters from readers who wanted to be hypnotized too. Wrote an Evening Standard contributor: "Many have found that gargling with silver nitrate, swallowing bicarbonate, or well coating the palate with toffee or chewing gum are strong discouragements-to the extent that smoke can then be inhaled only at the risk...
...where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County Meath, finds Irishmen slovenly, superstitious, witless and whining- when they are not irritatingly lovable, that...