Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Information Agency officer: "He's almost a Greek tragic hero, a vast commercial property being used by Geritol. He has strong opinions about the debasement of values by commercialism, but he can't condemn commercialism now. He's under a kind of Faustian pact with the devil." Says Laural Whipkey: "Charlie will play until he's beaten. That's the kind of guy he is." Van Doren's parents tell him that the show is taking up too much of his time, that he can't possibly be thinking of anything else...
...running toward it. Two weeks later, enemy bombs fell near the base, and Griffin gradually lost his sight. Doctors laid this to a blockage of circulation in arteries supplying the eyes. After the war, Griffin turned to writing books, which he dictated on a wire recorder, notably The Devil Rides Outside, a 1952 success about a man's tortured search for God in and out of a monastery. Three years ago he married, without ever seeing his wife or, later, their two children...
RAILROADS The Devil & Dan'l Webster On a preinaugural demonstration of his new, light, low-gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time...
...quite abreast of what's happening outside--in Montreal, New York and Cambridge. Though she has stopped writing for the Stanstead Journal, the county's weekly newspaper, she has completed a lyric poem and is blocking out in her mind a kindly and truthful book about the village, The Devil is in Us All! Considering the best-selling success of a recent, sensationalistic attempt by a young American marm, it would probably enjoy acclaim. When she isn't baking do-nuts or rolls for the rest of the village, she reads such writers as Dylan Thomas, Saroyan or Maugham...
United Mine Workers' aging (76) Boss John L. Lewis has generally decried, as the Devil's work, employers' injunctions to stop picketing. Picket Patriarch Lewis, however, had a familiar hot potato tossed into his own hands last week. At several Atlantic coast ports, in a jurisdictional row, pickets from A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions challenged access to some half-dozen Liberty ships owned by American Coal Shipping, Inc. A part owner of A.C.S.: United Mine Workers. At week's end the pickets in Charleston, S.C. were gone, shooed away by court injunctions obtained while Employer Lewis...