Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scoring punch of this year's unit. Gurley is passing up the sport this fall to concentrate on his studies; O'Connor looked good in preseason practice jaunts along the riverbank until a leg injury finished him, and Moriarty dropped out after the first meet on account of extra academic chores. Moriarty, however, will fly down to Princeton tomorrow morning to help the Crimson out against Yale...
...best-paid labor leader. He gets $20,000 a year from A.F.M. and $26,000 from its Chicago local (which also pays his income tax and provides him with a new car whenever he gets tired of the old one). He also has an $18,000 annual expense account...
...Post gave readers a bite-by-bite account of 21 elaborate meals, from scrambled eggs to sirloin steaks, eaten by Senator and Mrs. Taft on their campaign trek through the West (TIME, Oct. 6). The Post's sarcastic purpose: "To determine-from Senator Taft's example . . . how the average American should ration himself." Broadcaster Don Hollenbeck, referee of the weekly CBS Views the Press, promptly called a foul. Said Hollenbeck, who doesn't like Bob Taft either: "It was quite a propaganda job. . . . The purpose was ... to make Mr. Taft and his hosts...
...terms of the little poem that ends, "And the Cabots speak only to God." The book, by a member of one of the families, only occasionally attempts to bring sociological insight to the effects or the mores of the proper Bostonians, but it does give a graceful account that is filled with anecdotes and color...
...wander. It is not surprising, then, that the most pleasant moment in the book is an interlude. Amory takes time out for, a full chapter to tell the story of the Parkman-Webster murder case, which almost burst a blue blood-vein of proper Boston in 1849. Giving the account with subdued excitement, he advances step by step through, what he calls America's classic murder case, and proves himself an excellent writer of narrative...