Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Irwin Edman, 57, witty, erudite chairman (1945-53) of Columbia University's philosophy department (a critic called him a "blend of Plato, Santayana and Manhattan") and frequent panelist on radio's Invitation to Learning and TV's Author Meets the Critics; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Publisher Beebe and Editor Charles Clegg favor unrestricted gambling, frequent sessions with "the oracle of Martini," and the hell with progress. And instead of "printed exhortations to THINK . . . the management of the Enterprise [strews] the editorial and business offices with cards advising the staff...
...June 1815, the British brigantine Nautilus surrendered to the American sloop-of-war Peacock after a battle in the Sunda Strait. In the days of relatively unsinkable wooden ships, captures were frequent. Perhaps the most remarkable of such achievements was that of French hussars who discovered a Dutch fleet helplessly frozen in at Texel in January 1795, and captured it by a cavalry charge across...
...always so well ordered. In the last century filibusters were frequent, and minorities refused to vote, making action impossible for want of a quorum. Speaker Thomas Reed changed all that one wild day in 1890 by counting members present, although they sat mutely in their chairs when their names were called. Shouted a Kentuckian named McCreary, "I deny the right of the Speaker to count me present." "Czar" Reed shot back with devastating logic, "The Chair simply stated the fact that the gentleman from Kentucky appears to be present. Does he deny it?" With that, members bolted for the doors...
...nights that he steps out, Willie outfits himself from a big wardrobe; his closet bulges with expensively tailored sport coats, sharp slacks and monogrammed shirts, but very few ties. Willie hates ties, wears them only for such special events as his increasingly frequent TV and banquet appearances. "He's not flashy," says Mrs. Goosby, "but my, is he fussy. He won't wear anything that's the slightest bit wrinkled or spotted...