Word: barke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Hugh Baillie, 75, longtime (1935-55) president of United Press, a hotly competitive wire-service man who started as a police reporter and sportswriter, later ran his 197 worldwide bureaus with a drill sergeant's bark; of heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims...
...northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
With such unpredictable performances from the animals, the film's villain, former Olympic Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, chickened out on a scheduled wrestling scene with a leopard. "It was chained to a tree," explained Rafer, "and it was ripping the bark right off with its claws. I told the director: 'You get yourself another boy.' " Johnson was not the only recalcitrant actor. On the day Tarzan returned to the set, he was directed to ambush three Indian extras. Mike out-Tarzaned his thirteen predecessors, played it like a red-dogging linebacker, taking out all three with...
...story), and a class tree, and a class flower, and probably a class ice cream flavor. Everyone at Wellesley is expected to know these things, and a girl would probably be put on pro if she didn't collapse with laughter at the mention of lemon juice or larch bark. All of which is a bit puzzling to an outsider...
...huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary...