Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer in 1907, and John traveled the circuit with him. John's Henty was Blackstone. He learned that preparation for a case is 90% of success. (One of the things that makes his current Senate investigation stand out is its painstaking preparation.) As his father got busier, teen-age John was virtually in sole charge of a 75-acre farm, but he still found time to study his lawbooks. In the law he seemed to find something otherwise missing from most of his life. Says one observer: "His father was a lawyer-and his only mother...
...minimum age for admission to the Arkansas bar was 21, but Ike wangled special legislative permission for John to take the required oral test at 17. John scored a 90, 15 points above passing, and became the youngest lawyer in Arkansas...
...agonizing hours wore on, the groggy, red-eyed diggers received atomic-age assistance. From the AEC's nearby Brookhaven Laboratories came a set of tempered-steel tubes (used as gamma-ray shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered into the loft. wall that separated Benny from his rescuers. At 7:32 p.m., 23 hours and 48 minutes after Benny had plunged down the well, a wiry Negro construction worker named Sam Woodson wormed through the narrow pipe and touched Benny's hand. It was cold as death. Then...
...comedian, even the TV Pleistocene Age's Milton Berle, has matched Sid Caesar's staying power or his grip on the loyalty of hard-core fans. More than that, by common show-business consent, he is one of the truly great clowns. Apart from sheer technical mastery of pantomime, dialect, timing and the ad lib, Caesar has a creative gift for spoofing the stuffy and the phony and for finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made...
...Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman's vision, but a special hierarchical world into Avhich initiation is required. Reported Gertrude Stein: "Picasso said once that he who created a thing is forced to make it ugly . . . Those who follow can make of this...