Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concatenation of Cumshaw. Dodd's affairs have become the Dodd affair because of a muckraking series of articles by Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. On the basis of files fed to them by at least one disgruntled former assistant to Dodd, they charged that the white-haired, square-jawed former FBI agent accepted a concatenation of cumshaw from all manner of individuals and companies seeking official favors from him. The payola, claimed the columnists, included a sapphire ring for his wife, a television set for his office, shoes for some of his family, carpeting for his house...
...Stephanie and Ricky pleaded simply not guilty. Upstairs in an anteroom sat Sylvia's parents, still not comprehending how and why it had happened. Sitting sunken-cheeked in court, her blue-veined legs crossed and swinging silver-stitched black slippers, Mrs. Baniszewski also looked puzzled by the whole affair. Shortly after her arrest, she had confided to police: "Sylvia wanted something in life. But I couldn't figure out what...
...like coiled springs of Russian steel; they tear with trip-hammer speed and force across the keys, and in the last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best of the younger generation. Rachmaninoff and Ravel applaud...
...after the manic success, there is an odd depression. There is no second concert. Horowitz again withdraws from the public. Almost a year passes before he announces a new concert. The old affair begins anew. Two hundred candidates for tickets bivouac outside Carnegie Hall with sleeping bags and pillows. Again Horowitz begins to feel the old tensions rising. One day he gets a telephone call from a young mounted policeman, with whom he had chatted several times in his afternoon walks. "You probably know more than all of the people in the audience," says the cop. "You studied longer than...
Mike Millis and Steve Bergman missed the all-day affair because of exams, and Wayne Thornbrough had to drop out after 24 holes because he was sick. That left Harvard with only five men to turn in five scores...