Word: champs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among the seminude supporters sweating it out with Big Jim were Merchant Bernard F. Gimbel, 78, and onetime Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney, 66, who read a poem-presumably in dank verse-titled Ode to a Bouncing Biltmore Bath Baby...
...Ph.D. candidate, asks, "Who is the individual (singular or plural) directly responsible for writing the article on the individual in America?" Reader Jensen's question is happily phrased, for the responsibility as usual is both singular and plural. The story was written by Henry Grunwald, and edited by Champ Clark. They had the help of three researchers, Margaret Quimby, Martha McDowell and Mary Vanaman, and numberless correspondents in their forays into history and into contemporary attitudes toward the individual. As for the cover portrait, Artist Robert Vickrey looked at just about every available Lincoln photograph and painting, and found...
...Must Cut." Ever since he went to Congress in 1922 (after a decade on Speaker Champ Clark's staff and as House parliamentarian), cranky Clarence has grumped around Capitol Hill, gaining few close friends, many enemies, and a great respect for his crafty mastery of the parliamentary and political intricacies of the House. A little fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 140 Ibs.), he has nonetheless had three fistfights with fellow Congressmen. His spending credo is simple: "We just must cut everything we can." Yet there is cause for his cantankerousness, which can only be born of frustration. For during...
...stronger the man, the more self-restraint he must exercise," said New York Supreme Court Justice Saul S. Streit, counting out retired Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano, 39, who lost a decision to Gene Schoor, 45, author of the recent biography Young John Kennedy. Schoor claimed he was boffed by the Rock back in 1960, following an argument about a ghostwriting deal, and "my ears have been ringing ever since." Schoor's balm...
Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor (Angel) features the late Francis Poulenc and Jacques Fevrier as the two pianists in Poulenc's familiar and joyously baroque double concerto. Concert Champétre for Harpsichord and Orchestra, on the other side, is not vintage Poulenc, though played with mercurial zeal by Harpsichordist Aimée van de Wiele...