Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading that King Farouk was an avid butterfly collector, Dr. Lloyd E. Alexander, head of the biology department at Kentucky State College for Negroes in Frankfort, wrote a letter to Cairo. Could the King spare some of his royal bugs and butterflies for the college collection? Last week Professor Alexander an nounced that the King had been more than happy to accommodate his fellow naturalists: 27 boxes full of 909 specimens had arrived at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington...
...Otto Ernst Remer felt no shame about his work. Two years ago he began going from town to town under the auspices of the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, telling avid listeners the great saga of how he had served the Führer and confounded the traitors. He became a minor hero, and grew bolder and bolder until last May 3, in Brunswick, he shouted: "These conspirators of July 20 are to a great extent traitors to their country...
...world's No. 1 rare book dealer and one of its most avid collectors is Philadelphia's Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach. Last week Rosenbach announced that he had sold his famous collection of Shakespeares-73 prized folios and quartos of plays and sonnets, many of them first editions in excellent condition. The buyer: Europe's outstanding collector, Dr. Martin Bodmer, Swiss banker and vice president of the International Red Cross. The price: something over...
Self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander is a smooth politician ("90% of my job in the Mediterranean was politics"), a passable amateur oil painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
...Headsman." Meanwhile, Stevenson's paternal grandfather was busy campaigning against Lincoln. Grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson, who walked into Illinois beside a wagon in 1852, was also a lawyer, but an avid Democrat. As Grover Cleveland's First Assistant Postmaster General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin...