Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse make a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. Miss Harris properly "speaks poniards, and every word stabs"; and Morse "hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper...
This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no surprise to fans of British Novelist Iris Murdoch (The Sandcastle), a philosophy-teaching Oxford don and an intellectual pixy whose wit ends in tears, whose sentences are transparent while her meanings are opaque...
Died. Thomas Lunsford Stokes, 59, Pulitzer prizewinning old-school newsman (motto: "A reporter is half brain, half legs"), University of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa who got his early lessons in journalism on Southern newspapers and the U.P., in political reporting under the late Raymond Clapper in the '205; of a brain tumor; in Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers...
...also files more interpretive background stories on world affairs than the U.P., and in some capitals it notoriously outperforms U.P. Today none of the wire services boasts men with the global flair of the U.P.'s late WTebb Miller or the personal following of its late Raymond Clapper, but the U.P. has a sizable share of the standout American correspondents abroad and in Washington...
Pete Boyce, Mike Clapper, and Hubert Hocutt make up the starting foil squad. Bill Trebilcock will be in reserve...