Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teacher. In Providence, John A. Quigley's nine-month term in jail for drunken driving was reduced to three months when a prominent attorney testified: "He's the fellow who showed me how to get sober in Alcoholics Anonymous...
Gennadi Khomyakov, a veteran of the "isolator" camp on the Solovetski Islands. Standard punishment in wintertime was to send prisoners barefoot down 273 ice-covered steps to haul water from a frozen lake; their feet usually froze into icy stumps . . . and most of the victims died. One crazed fellow prisoner, to escape the logging detail, cut off one finger but was sent back to work. Losing his head completely, he chopped off his entire left hand, and collapsed unconscious. He was later shot for "malicious shirking of work...
...company's governors, who had sacked Olivier with his two fellow directors of the Old Vic, had nothing to say in public about his successes, though a spokesman purred: "We . . . shall always welcome him." Meanwhile, Olivier bubbled with plans of his own. Next month he expects to launch his own firm, Laurence Olivier Productions, with a new James M. Bridie play starring Dame Edith Evans. Tied down to his present busy Old Vic schedule until July, Olivier will neither act in the new show nor direct it, but next season he intends to keep busy as angel, manager, director...
Alan Barth, Nieman Fellow at the University and Washington Post writer, has been awarded a $100 special prize for "distinguished editorial writing," the American Newspaper Guild announced yesterday. Barth is one of eight journalists who received awards yesterday...
Saved by Disloyalty. "It does seem to me," says Graham Greene in Why Do I Write? (just published in Britain by Percival Marshall), "that one privilege [the writer] can claim, in common perhaps with" his fellow human beings, but possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to a group, the Catholic Church, which would present me with grave problems as a writer if I were not saved by my disloyalty ... There are leaders of the Church who regard literature as a means to one end, edification. That end may be of the highest value, of far higher...