Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like being born in a log cabin"). Of his boyhood, Javits recalls that "the most money I ever had was a penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate Ida Littman Javits Street). The Javits family lived rent-free because Immigrant Morris Javits worked as janitor...
...hymns (see box). Most puzzling is the strange document called "The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness," which seems like a ritual battle out of Revelation. It is filled with precise detail ("The line troops are to be 40 to 50 years of age . . . The officers, too, are to be from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between 25 and 30"), and some scholars look...
...even in its pre-Nasser heyday, when shares reached $355 (in 1954), had the Canal Company inspired such excitement. Its stock was always the kind of security that Frenchmen, who own 45% of the shares, put away for old age; the British government, which originally called the project a "bubble scheme" for "gullible capitalists," later bought 44% of the shares for ?4,000,000, has netted a handsome 26%-a-year return on its original investment...
...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. quietly reshuffled its top command last week. After five years as president, Cleo F. Craig, 63, moved out of the operating slot and up to chairman of the board well before the mandatory retirement age of 65 in order to give his successor a two-year break-in period. A.T & T.'s new chief executive: President Frederick R. Kappel (rhymes with apple), 54, a 32-year man at A.T. & T., who has been head of the company's manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, since...
...whose presence in the family tree the present Sir Winston has found "disquieting." The blacksmith's son married a widow a cut above him, and by dint of a few generations of such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden age began in the mid-17th century with Sir Winston Churchill, a loyal colonel in the forces of Charles I, whose budding career was clipped off in 1649 as neatly as his sovereign's head. But with the agility of his 20th century namesake, he snatched...