Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinarily I am loath to call your attention to errors in quotes. If you spell our names and list our college classes correctly, most of us are content to leave the rest more-or-less up to you. But since the publication of your fascinating article on Freshman Advising our office has been besieged by students pleading thirst and overwork, like so many crosses between Oliver Twist and the Ancient Mariner...
...married pretty, 18-year-old Fatmawati, who bore him two boys, three girls. In 1954 he took to wife lissome, 32-year-old Divorcée Heriati, and Indonesian women who had adored Sukarno turned away in outrage. Though Mohammedans are permitted four wives, emancipation-bound Indonesian women call Sukarno a "bigamist," sniff at Heriati as "That Woman," idolize patient Wife No. 2 (who is suing for divorce...
...House restaurant early one morning, Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall was summoned to the telephone. Over the wire came a familiar voice: "Len, I've got an idea I want to speak to you about. Come on over." Hall washed out a plane reservation to New York, called off his political engagements there, and trundled away to the White House. He was delighted at having his schedule mixed up: the call from Dwight Eisenhower, who wanted to talk about the campaign, was another proof of the President's vastly increased interest in party politics...
...midnight conference at the Rogers Hotel in Idaho Falls produced all twelve Idaho convention votes for him, he roamed the corridors searching for newsmen so they could telephone their papers. He found only one of his caravan's traveling reporters, who explained that the others were asleep, a call to New York where it was 3 a.m. would reach only the janitors. Harriman insisted the others be routed out. Said he: "This is the time they can get the story...
Appearance: Dark, handsome, and so tall-6 ft. 6 in.-that Africans call him "Bwana Kilimanjaro...