Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very good. Very, very good. You have done well. Here is your degree." The venerable professor offered the young man his blessing: "Now go forth into the world and search forever for your lost youth...
...many coal-mining towns are pure-aired health resorts, but Carbondale, Pa., 15 miles northeast of Scranton, has a special problem. Deep under the streets of a good-sized part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them...
Apples & Pears. Rarely has good news been presented with more furrowed brows. Big Steel's Blough astutely cautioned that high second-quarter earnings reflected "an unusually high demand artificially stimulated by our customers' fear of a steel strike." Comparing current earnings with profits in recession 1958, said Bethlehem's Homer, was comparing "apples and pears." Republic's White called his company's second-quarter record "to a major degree a result of robbing business from the third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize...
...attack of polio at the age of four. "With the contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden River . . . My friend, however, was a cold-blooded proposition; as soon as he got his fists on my food, he'd quit . . . Today the tables are turned. The yarn spinners...
...Plain, by Harry Golden. The twice-bestselling pickle-barrel philosopher (Only in America) may work too hard at being a Jewish Will Rogers, but he rambles on entertainingly about Southern foibles and the good old poorboy days...