Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tierney admits he is amazed by the fast-moving U.S. silver market. "If two people in New York decide to bid against each other for something," he says in wonder, "they don't care what they pay. That doesn't happen in London. Competitive bidding only goes as far as each thinks the value to be." Under his knowledgeable supervision, Parke-Bernet's volume in silver sales has leap-frogged from $388,320 in 1967 to $1,197,785 last year...
...report, and it is our policy not to tinker with the text of an official report," says Executive Editor Norman Isaacs. As complaints poured in from church groups and offended readers, Isaacs candidly apologized. "It was an error in news judgment," he adds. "It isn't likely to happen again...
...least that was what was supposed to happen. Once the first of eight twelve-minute periods got going, however, the action quickly developed into a free-for-all. Whirling around the track at 30 m.p.h., the skaters shoved, tripped and slugged one another with abandon. The Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates...
...repairman, or she won't check the whole ground floor before locking up. When the dormitory is locked, girls often prop open the door while they go out to mail a letter or return a reserve book to Hilles. These are all mistakes which by now should no longer happen, in view of the increase of thefts and tension over physical safety...
...happen to pick your copy of Something Happening out of the dust on your, entry's lower landing this week or last? If you did, you were probably as surprised as I was by its new format--and, I hope, as pleased...