Word: fourth
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...beat Payne, handshaking, backslapping Ed Muskie, a Roman Catholic and father of three (a fourth is due in December), is the best campaigner on the Maine scene in many a year; even Republicans admit that he has been the most effective Governor in the last 50 years. He got the credit and Republicans the ill will last spring when he called a special legislative session, proposed to extend recession-ridden Maine's unemployment aid or accept federal help, was turned down by G.O.P. legislators. Just three days before election, President Eisenhower vetoed the Payne-sponsored bill to provide federal...
Docking in Los Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked...
...buyers, biggest number ever for a September week, all clamoring for quick delivery of new orders. Shelves were bare back home because the buyers had ordered cautiously last June (TIME, June 30), and the late summer surge cleaned out stocks. Retailers believe the pickup will grow stronger in the fourth quarter. The National Retail Merchants Association polled 225 members with total yearly sales of more than $2.5 billion, found that 52% expect second-half sales to rise an average of 4% over the year-ago level, while 80% expect profits to equal or top last year's level...
...fourth annual meeting of the Atlantic Treaty Assembly will be held in Boston and vicinity during the week beginning Sept. 21. The Boston Regional Conference on NATO Affairs will sponsor the meeting along with its New York counterpart...
...Some writers become both fascinated and horror-struck by words and letters. The Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega wrote five successive novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...