Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milles' favorite figure is that of an old hermit philosopher, squatting like a gnome, as the sculptor had known him 50 years ago. "He had been a teacher at some university," says Milles. "But he preferred to live where people didn't know so much, and were not so conceited." Just before he died, the philosopher had poisoned his two dogs, so that they would always be with him. "So," says Milles, "I represent him sitting with his dogs, in the first moment when he arrives in the new world, and they are all united...
...midst of a torrid political campaign, some years ago, in a Central American country, Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige and his barnstorming Negro team arrived in town. One of the candidates, a longtime aficionado of beisbol and Satchel, made his rival a sporting proposition: let the election turn on the game; he would bet on Satchel, and whoever won the bet would win the election. The bet was made. Satchel won in a breeze, but. didn't stick around for thanks: he detected the flash of machetes from the defeated candidate's supporters...
...game so long that his memory-and his arm-ain't what they used to be. But he still makes the modest claim that he is the "world's greatest pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next...
Born in Poland 43 years ago and educated in New York's public schools, Frieda Hennock bucked parental disapproval to study law. At 21 she became the youngest woman member of the New York State Bar. Later she joined the rock-ribbed Republican law firm of Choate, Mitchell & Ely, where she was the only woman lawyer and only Democrat. She has never married (although "I believe in marriage and I want the companionship of a wonderful...
...practiced eye discovered a monstrous star that should not have been there. It was a supernova, an obscure star that had exploded suddenly. When Dr. Mayall photographed it first, its "absolute brilliance" was equal to two million suns. It had probably faded from a peak a few weeks ago of four million suns. If any planets had been revolving around that unstable star, they were certainly vaporized by now into scattered atoms...