Word: avidity
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...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...
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...