Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia in 1956 as a speech major, English minor. Among his senior year courses: chamber music, third year Greek, history and theory of music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters. He averaged six hours of sleep a night while working at Columbia, studied Ibsen on transcontinental flights, still managed to look buttercup-fresh in two movies made last year (he was Hollywood's third biggest dollar draw). Singer-Scholar Boone racked up an A-minus average, missed...
...Father Shanaghan says, "the country boys don't want to get far from mother's home cooking," brought more and more of them around. Enrollment jumped by 60 in 1956 (the year after Egan arrived), and three months ago Benedictine Egan was made president at the age...
...century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found a whole catalogue of a bronze age culture in the form of skillfully made miniature sculptures...
...more exciting to them is a planned visit to the home of one of their favorite Americans, Mark Twain, in Hannibal, Mo. So taken was Goriaev by Huckleberry Finn's adventures on the Mississippi that he ran away from home at the age of eleven and briefly floated down the Dnieper on a raft. Goriaev, who has drawn the Statue of Liberty wearing policeman's boots and carrying a club marked Racism and Segregation, illustrated Russian editions of both Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer...
...world of commercial aviation, U.S. piston aircraft have long been dominant. Around the world, the fields are loaded with thousands of U.S. planes, from the 22-year-old DC-3s to the Super Constellations and DC-7s. In the jet age, U.S. planemakers also plan to dominate the air. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. rolled out its 176-passenger DC-8 for its first flight. With an escort of two jet chase planes to observe and take pictures, a veteran Douglas test crew took the DC-8 to 31,000 ft., flew it over the Pacific at 360 m.p.h...