Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach. 75, the world's No. 1 rare-book dealer and one of its most avid collectors; after long illness; in Philadelphia. Called the "Napoleon of Books" by rival bibliophiles who often watched him skim off the cream of the rare-books sales, "Rosy" owned, at one time or another, a $25,000,000 collection of rare volumes. Among them: eight Gutenberg Bibles, between 30 and 40 first folios of Shakespeare, and the famous Bay Psalm Book, first book printed (1640) in Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable...
...brought the sophomore smoker, the outing of the scare that a hotel would be built on Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, and William Jennings Bryan to speak on "democracy." On the eleventh, 2,000 avid crow fans waited until 3 p.m. to se Harvard got off to a fast start against Penn, M.I.T., and Cornell in the Quadrangular Regatta, rough water had postponed the race for three hours. The Cantab and Penn Crew soon left the others far behind. Matching stroke for stroke they swept down the Charles, but Harvard took advantage of a snapped oarlock in the Quaker shell...
Alcoholics & Snobs. South Carolina's Democrat Joseph Bryson, a Baptist and an avid joiner (Mason, Shriner, Woodman, Redman, Junior Merrymaker, Moose and United Commercial Traveler), admitted that what he liked on TV was Fred Waring, Herb Shriner and "rassling." What he didn't like was the "wife-swapping" indicated by the introduction of a TV star (unnamed) which included the information that the star's current wife was "so-and-so." At this news, Colorado's Chenoweth again sat up and took notice. "Shows the actual exchange of wives, does it?" he asked intently. "Is that...
...eyes popped as I first glanced at the April 28 TIME and spotted Eddie Stanky in a St. Louis Cardinal cap on the cover! As a former St. Louisan and an avid Cardinal fan, I appreciated your fine article on "The Brat" Stanky. Let's hope he'll be the spark that will ignite the gas in the Gashouse...
When Caroline de Bièvre arrives in Paris early in the spring of 1789, she is "16, unkissed and avid for life." Some five years and 311 pages later, she has finished with one husband and four lovers (a couple of would-be seducers escape her), flirted with a Lesbian, inspired three killings, saved her pretty, blonde neck from the guillotine and sailed, still unjaded, for the U.S. After a sale of 300,000 copies in France, Novelist Cecil Saint-Laurent's account of all this has now been published in the U.S. It may bring out customers...