Word: cats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geared to the retirement of Vice President Turner Catledge, which would have been mandatory in early 1971 when Catledge turns 70. But five weeks ago, Catledge told Sulzberger he would retire at once, and Sulzberger and Reston set in motion the plan to install Rosenthal as top editor. When Cat-ledge changed his mind about retirement, the publisher decided to go ahead with the change anyway and created a new vice-presidential slot for Reston...
...until last week did the State Department belatedly drop its total prohibition against such imports and declare that returning tourists may bring back $100 worth of Chinese merchandise (see THE NATION). The dispensation delighted shopkeepers in Singapore and along Hong Kong's sleazy Upper and Lower Lascar Row ("Cat Street"). In some of the larger Peking-controlled emporiums in Hong Kong, English-speaking shopgirls stood like smiling spring flowers beneath red banners and Mao portraits, waiting to take some of the capital out of the capitalist...
...obsessive craftsman, intensely jealous of his working and thinking time, he was often evasive and devious with friends and editors. There is no doubt, however, that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile, "I was not given time to finish...
...Yorkshire. An old-school aristocrat whose family motto is "A Sound Conscience Is a Wall of Brass," the Lord Chamberlain ran head-on into the New Morality in his traditional role as censor of plays, protected Britons from histrionic homosexuality by barring such plays as Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from the London stage and emasculated Beckett's Waiting for Godot on grounds of blasphemy...
...always there when needed. Negro Actor James Earl Jones mentioned that he did not particularly enjoy being called a "spade cat." Cavett allowed as how he could understand that. After all, "The old maid in the apartment above me lives with a spayed cat." Caught on-camera taking a telephone call from the producer, Cavett flashed an exasperated look and ad-libbed: "I've told you never to call me at work, Miss Lollobrigida...