Word: fares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrounded by comics, crossword puzzles, cheesecake, dog stories and other newspaper fare, the new column in the Chicago Sun-Times looked as out of place as Plato on a comic-book rack. Even the questions from readers were formidable: What is truth? What is justice? What is love? The columnist's name and title were enough to send Smilin' Jack fans into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher...
...insists that he wants to stay in the Commonwealth; he believes his people will fare better at London's hands than at those of the white settlers of Rhodesia. When Nyasaland is on its own, he says, he would keep a number of European Cabinet Ministers (even the most sympathetic Europeans are appalled by his lack of economic realism about a poor country that must be heavily subsidized to stay alive). An emotional, erratic man, he warned just before being carted off to jail: "They will stop nothing by my arrest. Nyasaland is awake...
...usual weekly wrestling programs, proudly announced plans to bring an impressive roster of Metropolitan Opera stars to Philadelphia next season for opera performances. In his long career, 59-year-old Promoter Fabiani has also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
...taxi fare (38?) seemed reasonable enough, but not to the passenger, who was singularly belligerent for 10 a.m. "Go to hell!" she roared. "I have no money." The cabby summoned a bobby, who steered his charge to Liverpool magistrate's court, needed help from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand...
...many schools, Wilcox explains, fail to realize that a capable senior can handle three college-level courses. Some limit their seniors to one or two such classes, eliminates any possibility of Sophomore Standing. In addition, many high school teachers think advanced courses are merely intensive duplication of the usual fare, rather than presentations of new material. Wilcox expects the present reluctance to "push" promising students to disappear as the advantages of acceleration become widely known...