Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downtown office. After a night of dickering with Equitable Life Assurance Society, Shor's landlord and owner of the surrounding area, Webb & Knapp called in Shor, gave him his check. Shor, whose memory goes back a long time, told old friend and New York Post Columnist Jimmy Cannon: "Being paid off at 3 in the morning, I felt like a bootlegger. That's when the old mob guys used to do their business...
Next noon at lunch, showing off the check to friends and customers, Shor ordered champagne on the house and disclosed to Cannon that he is already having problems, being so rich. Coming up from the bank, Shor said: "I got to the joint and started to tip the hackie a dime. I figured I ought to start acting like all those other millionaires. But I didn't have the guts to be cheap." Now, said Shor, whose pet gripe is the stinginess of the rich, "I got to be nice to them. They're my people." With only...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...
...Trades Union, whose 239,334 members are controlled by Communist President Frank Foulkes and Communist General Secretary Frank Haxell. And the opening session of the goth annual meeting of the T.U.C. last week found the Red electricians in a peculiarly vulnerable position: although 38-year-old E.T.U. Member Leslie Cannon had been elected a delegate to the congress by the union's membership, Frank Foulkes and "Squeaky" Haxell had refused to accredit him because he had quit the Communist Party in disgust over Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. But when fiercely anti-Communist Labor M.P. Walter Padley jumped...
...including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice of one of his portrait subjects, Inventor Hudson Maxim...