Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kidded on the campus, pointed at in public, Roy Riegels began to brood. He tried to forget those ten tragic seconds, but the world refused to forget. When, after graduation, he got a job as coach at a California high school, spectators heckled him from the stands: "Why don't you teach them to run the right way?'' When introduced to strangers, he was invariably greeted with the same exclamation: "Oh, you're the guy who ran the wrong...
Slender, scholarly Gail Borden of Chicago's Social Register is rarely allowed to forget that the great-granduncle for whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed...
...prefer," says Sassoon, at 52, "to remember my own gladness and good luck, and to forget, whenever I can, those moods and minor events which made me low-spirited and unresponsive." His happy memories are really a tribute to the optimistic spirit of upper-class Englishmen's pre-War world. That spirit Siegfried Sassoon conveys exactly. Defending it, The Old Century is his testament that the worst that can happen in peace is idyllic compared to the best that can happen...
Meanwhile in the Pacific, regarded for several years as the most vulnerable sea front of the U. S., four of the Navy's 15 battleships, two of its 31 cruisers, will stay for overhaul and to see that Japan does not forget its manners. The standing force of submarines, destroyers and planes in the Pacific Islands will also remain undisturbed...
...Unpredictable, inexhaustible, octogenarian George Bernard Shaw last week disclosed that he is at work on a historical play laid in the reign of Charles II. Said Shaw to sex-sniffing reporters: "Oh, forget about Nell Gwyn; this is going to be about really interesting people . . . Sir Isaac Newton, for instance...