Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also made headlines last week. John Given Jr.. 44-year-old heir to a piece of the Heinz pickle fortune, was asked to leave Brigantine, N.J. because of an intoxicated trigger finger. Given, who was in trouble back in 1948 for threatening an old man with a sword cane, set off a disturbance last week by visiting a children's party with five pistols, and firing blank cartridges in salvos while the kiddies fled, screaming, from every exit...
Since a woman's place in this man's world is to grow and prepare his food, a Kogi man's idea of a good catch is a lass with a workhorse physique. He helps in the fields (sugar cane, turnips, potatoes) as little as he can. He and his wife live in separate conical houses. Daily, the woman cooks a thin soup of vegetables, sets it on a terrace outside her house, where her husband comes to eat. Nights, she lures him to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup...
Logs & Diaries. Today, at 84, she knows as much about the Archives as anyone alive. Week after week, supported by her ebony cane, she still makes her way from the Hotel Cristina to the hushed chambers of the Casa de la Lonja. There, head bent low, she still pores over the endless viceroys' reports, ships' logs and diaries. But in all the decades she has been in Seville, her chief target has never changed: today, she is the world's leading expert on Columbus' crew...
...memorial in Braille's honor. Meanwhile, the citizens of Coupvray performed a ceremony of their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...
Over the years, thousands of students have known him as a hearty man who hated automobiles (he often drove a horse & buggy), carried a cane, and wore a hearing aid that sputtered so much he was affectionately called "the Buzzer." But in class, students forgot everything except the Buzzer's fiery way of teaching. Sometimes he stamped his feet, sometimes he brandished his cane, sometimes he even hopped up on a desk in the heat of describing a battle. Once, drenched by the rain, he whisked off his suit and conducted the class in his underwear...