Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G. SARGENT...
Perhaps recalling the plentiful publicity that accrued years ago when Oklahoma's stogie-chomping Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray planted chickpeas on the lawn of the gubernatorial mansion, Michigan's boyish Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams staged a cow-milking contest on the front lawn of the statehouse (for Lansing's June Dairy Month). Snuggling up to a Guernsey, Princeton-educated Soapy seized the controls confidently, but could not shift out of neutral, squeezed out fourth in a field of four. Winner: Lansing's Mayor Ralph Crego...
Currently the Hi-Lo's are looking high and low for new material, are even experimenting with arrangements of classical music. "There is no reason," says Arranger Puerling, "why four voices can't do Air on the G String by Bach. It's not sacrilegious...
...Extra "O." The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous. Then, when the pronouncer had only six of his 630 words left, Sandra spelled Xylophagus with a g-o-u-s, and Dana got it right. It seemed as if Sandra had wound up exactly as she had a year ago-until the judges found that her xylophagous was acceptable...
...turned out more than a hundred books-novels, histories, art studies. To top off his career, Michel Georges-Michel this week is bringing out the American edition of his carefully culled memoirs (From Renoir to Picasso; Houghton Mifflin; $4). Glittering with wit and the reflections of the great, M. G.-M.'s book is not only lively anecdotal history but a refreshing reminder that the men who painted today's museum pieces were rich with the juices of life...