Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memorizing great chunks of poetry to be able to go on teaching. He looked upon teaching as an exacting art, and worked upon each lecture as if it were to be his first. Every lecture was a performance. Settled in a chair by his desk and crooking his neck around to peer through his one good eye, he seemed to be talking freely and offhandedly. It was hard for his students to realize that he had polished and memorized nearly every word the night before. He never gave exactly the same lecture twice...
Tribune Books Editor Irita Van Doren said her sampling was broader than S.R.L. indicated. Said she: "If anybody could suggest any real way to get around weaknesses in the bestseller lists, I would be glad to do it." For the moment, the Times and the Tribune planned no changes...
Town & Country has been quietly slipping ever since Editor Harry Bull resigned from the 100-year-old Hearst-owned monthly (TIME, April 28, 1947). Bull's successor, Paris-born Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, didn't make the grade. Casting around for somebody new, the top Hearst brass asked ex-Hearstling Sell whether he knew a good editor. Said Sell: "Yes, me!" It was a deal, with the understanding that Editor Sell would go on running his meat business and keeping an eye on his Blaker Advertising Agency...
...snails boring into big achatinas with sharp, file-like teeth. He also found snail-eating beetles, and took both finds back to Hawaii, where they are still penned up carefully for observation. Some biologists fear that if the beetles and small snails exterminate the giant snails, they might look around for other food and become pests themselves...
...outside visitor, the most interesting class is that on Communism. Beneath a crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...