Word: belled
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Died. Jack Bell, 71, former chief political writer for the Associated Press and author of several books on the U.S. presidency; following a massive stroke; in Washington, D.C. Bell joined the A.P. Washington bureau in 1937 and remained there for the next 32 years, writing a widely read, bylined daily column. A steady, reliable writer, he was respected for the soundness of his reporting but never established an imposing personality as a columnist. His chief preoccupation was the Chief Executive. In such books as The Splendid Misery (1960) and The Johnson Treatment (1965), Bell wrote about White House power politics...
Though it was scarcely intended to be an aid to urban protesters, CB may be the fastest-growing communications medium since the Bell telephone. Used largely as a plaything after its introduction in the 1950s, it first invaded the air waves in force during the 1973 oil embargo, when speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of radar traps. In the past year, the vogue has spread to a vast and vocal number of private-car owners, who have tied into a short-wave system* that today links an estimated...
Hemingway used the war to soak up material for his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Earlier in Abyssinia, Evelyn Waugh witnessed Mussolini's campaign against Haile Selassie's antiquated army. Waugh too was no shakes as a journalist-filing his copy in Latin did not ingratiate him with his editors-but he returned from Africa to disguise his experiences in Scoop, still the best satire on journalism ever written...
...featured Sally Rand, and Bette Midler began her career and won her gay following by singing at the Continental Baths in Manhattan. The Continental is currently shunned by the In set of trendmakers, who patronize Everhart's. Most baths have TV rooms and serve food. Says gay Writer Arthur Bell: "It's like going into a womb?you can live there for days if you want to, completely oblivious to the outside world...
...English word clock is related etymologically to, among others, the French word cloche, meaning bell. In the United States in the 19th century, as in Europe, people were called to work by a bell in a bell tower. Then a clock was hung in the tower or steeple, and its loud chimes rang out the hours. In other, drabber places, there was the factory whistle. But such devices were not possible in big noisy cities. Thus, the coordination of work could be established only if men and women were ruled directly by time; in effect, modern industrialization became possible only...