Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pushing ahead with his campaign to humanize Britain's dismal prisons, Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler announced his newest device for rehabilitating gaolbirds: a $280 prize for the best original literary, artistic or musical composition produced behind bars. Unmentioned, at his own request, was the instigator and donor of the award: Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler, 56. whose Dialogue with Death and Scum of the Earth grew out of his own imprisonment by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War and by Vichy France during World...
Biggest hit of the National Home Builders convention in Chicago was the "Coffee Butler," a self-cleaning automatic coffeemaker that, at the touch of a button, brews and serves a cup of hot, fresh coffee in a matter of seconds. Produced by the Havajava Manufacturing Corp. of Glendale, Calif., makers of coin-operated coffee machines, the Butler operates like something in a Rube Goldberg dream...
Designed for home use (and no coins). Coffee Butler will provide roughly 100 cups of freshly brewed coffee in one filling without fuss or muss. List price: $249.50, plus $25-$30 for connections to water line and drain...
...seniors named are Edward D. Berman '62, of Winthrop House and Portland, Me., Bishop C. Hunt, Jr. of Eliot House and Boston, James J. Fox '62, of Adams House and Milwaukee, Wisc., Alan K. Henrikson '62, of Quincy House and Ames, Iowa, Jay W. Butler '62, of Leverett House and Odgen, Uthah, and David B. Frohnmayer '62 of Dunster House and Medford...
Against such progress is the fate of many a lesser Negro college, launched by church groups to fill a complete absence of Negro education in certain areas. As for money, the churches often assumed that "God will take care of it." Typical is two-year Butler College in Tyler, Texas, which hit a peak of 500 students in the early 1950s. Now it is down to 80 students, a faculty of nine and no endowment. Last spring the Baptist-related school lost accreditation, and its survival is indeed...