Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where his father was a cashier in a paper mill. Both boys went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both excelled as law students. They each married relatively young, Rogers to Adele Langston,* a classmate at Cornell Law, who gave up her own career to rear three sons and a daughter...
...speaks to Anthony Grey, Reuters' man in Peking. Grey is confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room is chilled by icy winds that blow down on Peking from Siberia. For another five months, fanless, Grey swelters under heat...
...moth, and her performance offstage was the true measure of the actress. Lavish beyond redemption, garrulous beyond recall, Tallulah chain-smoked, talked and caroused like a longshoreman. She was known to romp around her apartment in the nude drinking planter's punch-and sometimes greeted friends at the door in the same state of undress. Tallulah refused to remember anyone's name (she once introduced a friend named Olive as "Martini"), liked to break up stuffy parties by doing cartwheels or tossing the other ladies' shoes out the window. She was married only once-briefly, to Actor...
...News That's Fit to Print"; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Sulzberger tempered his indomitable dignity with wry good humor. In order to succeed, he once said, "you work very hard, you never watch the clock, you polish up the handle on the big front door. And you marry the boss's daughter." Sulzberger did just that. In 1917 the young Columbia graduate married Iphigene Ochs, the only child of Times Publisher Adolph Ochs, who had wanted his daughter to marry a newspaperman to perpetuate the dynasty. Sulzberger had no journalistic experience, but swiftly proved himself...
...been afraid that students would "parlay the numbers the way they did last year" if the Board discussed the number of bursar's cards collected. After the Dow demonstration last year, the Board separated students into three categories: those who had been present, those who had physically blocked the door, and those who had submitted bursar's cards in sympathy...