Word: alphabetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison code that Novelist Arthur Koestler described in Darkness at Noon, for tapping out the alphabet, echoed through the corridors of a Communist prison in Budapest. From their tapped-out conversations, top Hungarian Journalist Paul Ignotus and a young girl named Florence Matay, who could not see one another, fell in love. Last week they were honeymooning in Italy. For their story, see FOREIGN NEWS, After the Cinema...
...Lessons. Florence, too, had read her Koestler. "One day I heard a tap-tap-tap, muffled, irregular, but methodical. I remembered the alphabet in Darkness at Noon: one tap for A, two for B, and so on.* I listened and for a long time could make no sense out of what I heard-until I realized that the language was English." She tried to join in the conversation, but the others were suspicious of her. At first there was no answer. But after repeatedly tapping out her name she discovered that the man in the cell below hers...
...Dividing the alphabet into rows of five, A-E F-J, etc.; thus, G is two taps followed by a pause and then two more taps (to indicate the second letter of the second...
...Reason to Go. Since the day in 1875 when Mormon Leader Brigham Young decided that his followers must have an academy to train Mormon teachers ("I want you to remember," he told its first permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine...
...tried to rush it, George Bernard Shaw might have succeeded in giving the English-speaking peoples a phonetic alphabet. Says the Smithsonian Torch, a slim house organ put out by the Smithsonian Institution for the museum set: "We are in complete accord with Bernard Shaw's campaign for a simplified alphabet. But instead of immediate drastic legislation, we advocate a modified plan...