Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment rally in Washington's armory (see The Economy), drew roars by roasting the Administration for rejecting "prudent proposals to expand the economy of our country." Back he went to the Senate to show what a man of action could do. He introduced a bill setting up an eleven-member, legislative-executive unemployment fact-finding commission. Scarcely three hours after the bill was hoppered. 68 Senators had stepped forward to cosponsor. A remarkably brief 48 hours later, the resolution sailed through by voice vote, and liberals, squawkers and other doubters were put on notice the Johnson way that...
...Madras" Symphony was scored for a normal symphony orchestra minus trumpets, trombones and tubas. Added were tablas (tuned Indian hand drums) and the jalatarang (a set of eleven porcelain rice bowls of different pitch, depending on size and thickness). The players of the tablas and jalatarang had their entrance cues but were otherwise free to improvise, if necessary, around Cowell's themes. It was a languorous, curiously hypnotic work, with a wavering melodic line that occasionally died away before syncopated flights of the tablas. Said one Indian observer: "A mood as lovely as twilight...
...Crimson will have portions of other athletic squads at most starting positions. Backfield men from John Yovicsin's eleven, Charlie Ravenel, Chet Boulris and Charlie Leamy, will be at left field, third base and center field, while basketball standout George Harrington will start at second base, squash player John Davis will be behind the plate, and hockey defenseman Mo Balboni will probably start in right field...
...clue was that Donna had eaten no flounder and had not got sick. Dr. Singley remembered having read in medical school a 1945 report of sodium nitrite poisoning in New York City. A colleague clinched it: he had just reread the same story in Berton Roueché's Eleven Blue Men, reprinted from The New Yorker. Simultaneously, unknown to the Camden team, doctors across the Delaware River were giving methylene blue to women who had eaten flounder in a downtown restaurant...
...himself at the public library. For a living he tried many menial jobs: he ran elevators, once worked as doorkeeper at the Guggenheim Museum. He long hesitated between painting and writing, failed to paint a picture that struck him as "a personal statement" until he was 32. In the eleven years of his life that remained, Salemme sold pictures to Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern museums. He was also commissioned to paint murals for posh Manhattan House and the old Moore-McCormack liner Argentina. Yet he was more respected than sought after; Salemme and his family stayed poor...