Word: defunction
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...energetic juniors have adopted the defunct Quincy newspaper, changed its name and format, and put out a number of issues with a regularity unusual for House periodicals. Other activists have founded the Quincy Drama Society, and have published the Quincy Drama Review. The Essay Society meets without ostentation on alternate Sundays to discuss a topical paper submitted by a member...
...seem to write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape. San Francisco's hungry i, where many comedians got their start, has been hurt by the bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...
...Zionist movement finally saw daylight last week. CBS Board Chairman William Paley announced plans to convert the site of the defunct Stork Club (TIME, Oct. 15) into a lot-size (42 ft. by 100 ft.) public park as a memorial to his father, Cigar Czar Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs...
...economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...
...them? "If the final burden is on this court," groaned Chief Justice Earl Warren, who dissented in Jacobellis, "then it looks to me as though we're in trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Ginzburg's Lawyer Sidney Dickstein argued that the court could find "social importance" merely by reading the testimony of assorted literary eminences. While conceding that Liaison...