Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas by winning a nationwide Gateway to Hollywood movie contest which asked: "Who will be Gale Storm and Terry Belmont?" Says Gale: "If there was one thing I needed, it was a new name." Winner of the Terry Belmont stakes was Lee Bonnell, an Indiana boy who did not bother to change his name. The two prizewinners married a year later, and are now raising three handsome sons...
...spoke to a tutor today, and he told us to not bother petitioning for a change," a Claverly sophomore said yesterday...
Liberace himself is not quite sure where his appeal lies, and it doesn't bother him. His aim: "To be to the piano what Bing Crosby is to the voice." Another aim: to finish his new home in Royal Oaks, Calif., where he, his brother and his mother can live, and swim in their pool, which is shaped like a grand piano viewed from the second balcony...
Though Portland is already used to the word (it is in Multnomah County, and has both a Multnomah Hotel and a Multnomah College), most of the citizenry showed boredom or open hostility to the idea. Local officials seemed genuinely horrified at the prospect of the expense and bother involved. Cried another Portland writer, Richard L. Neuberger, in summing up the general reaction: "I think Neuberger is a hell of a name, too, but . . . I'm not going to change...
Growing Up. A mystery that has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years is how a complete organism develops out of a single fertilized egg cell. Biologist C. H. Waddington of the University of Edinburgh reports that it is a mystery still. The biologists can bother fertilized ova in all sorts of ways, but they cannot explain how the apparently simple cell can, all by itself, construct something as complicated as a whale...