Word: astley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most resounding byline on the Anglophobe Chicago Tribune belongs to British-born John Lucius Astley-Cock. Now 74, bushy-browed, patrician Astley-Cock has been, among many things, a Cambridge University athlete, linguist, Shakespearean scholar, psychologist and church organist. At the Trib, where he has worked since 1932, his nominal title is assistant education and religion editor. But he has done his most enduring work as the paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling...
...will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find 'fthisis...
...Correspondents Dick Tregaskis, I.N.S.; Robin Miller, New Zealand War Department; Jack Bowling, Chicago Sun; Bob Cromie, Chicago Tribune ; Ralph Morse, LIFE; Henry Keys, London Daily Express; Bill Hippie, A.P.; J. A. Bockhurst, News of the Day; H. E. Astley Hawkins, Reuters; and myself wish you all a Happy New Year from Guadalcanal...
Marriage Revealed. Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, 36; and seafaring ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, 26; three months ago; in an undisclosed New England town. Her first husband was Captain Philip Astley, a London real-estate broker, whom she divorced in 1939. Hayden, who quit Hollywood after a brief career, said his wife would soon quit...
Prayer of an old Cavalier, Sir Jacob Astley, before the Battle of Newbury...