Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game, wears the same lucky green tie to every one. (Says he: "I'd rather go to a Tennessee game without my pants than without that tie.") Aside from the farm and football, his chief recreation is spinning yarns about his courtroom experiences. Such a man could easily avoid being intense about McCarthy...
...thirteen fraternity lodges, have long been the chief means whereby the college is known to the outside world. Hordes of nearby Smith and Mt. Holyoke girls are imported. A keg of beer is tapped upstairs and a smaller keg of gin downstairs. The furniture is removed to avoid breakage. The Amherst man dons his tie, and in the springtime, when the week-ends are the most enjoyable, his bermuda shorts. It is not ususual for 95 percent of the college to take part...
...manner. Now, torn between his allegiance to the Administration and his friendship for McCarthy, Karl Mundt obviously needs all his patience. In his opening remarks last week, Mundt observed that his responsibility was one "which I do not welcome and which I did all that I honorably could to avoid...
...scholarly president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, was named by President Eisenhower to succeed Clarence E. Manion as chairman of the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. A quiet, shy man, with an astonishing literary appetite,, "Kesty" spends most of his spare time reading, a practice he feels too many businessmen avoid. An early member of Citizens for Eisenhower, he is chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and a director of the Chicago Community Fund. Kesty figures that he can do the job without quitting Hart Schaffner & Marx or moving to Washington...
THIRTEEN. Avoid being thirteen at a table; it brings bad luck. The strong-minded should not fall to crack Jokes: "What is the difference? I'll eat enough for two!" Or again, if there are ladies, ask if any is pregnant...