Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Alabama became a state (1819), riffraff, bond jumpers, cardsharps and other fugitives from Georgia were crossing the muddy Chattahoochee River to find haven in wicked little Phenix City. As time passed, respectable families came to Phenix City, too, but gamblers, pimps and narcotics pushers still ran the town, and fattened on the trade of soldiers from Ft. Benning, just across the river near Columbus, Ga. This year Lawyer Albert L. Patterson ran for attorney general of Alabama on a pledge to shut down vice throughout the state, and especially in his home town of Phenix City...
...Quizmaster Groucho (You Bet Your Life) Marx, collar up, slouch hat down, landed at London Airport, beat off autograph hounds, then was besieged by newsmen. Asked one: "Why haven't you visited London for 23 years?" Growled Groucho: "To avoid newspapermen. You can call me the male Greta Garbo." With that, he loped off into the rain...
...third doorbell (Dolores Donlon), Quinn plays the gentleman and invites the girl to go out with him. "I can't," she says. "I haven't a thing to wear." So she and Quinn stay home. Last stop is a girl named Venus (Peggie Castle), but by this time Quinn seems a little too tired to play an adequate Adonis...
Richardson and his supporters were jublian: "My greatest satisfaction was in being true to what I knew and felt was right," Richardson said. Now assured of his job at Nevada, Richardson is not certain that he wants to return. "They haven't offered me a contract yet," he says dryly...
Harvard has been the object of much name-calling during its 318 years of existence, dubbed with epithets ranging from "hotbed of Puritanism" to "haven for Communists." But perhaps the most objective appraisal of the University, and one that emphasizes a quite unheralded aspect of its daily functioning, is the one-word description suggested by an unknown Social Relations man. He simply said, "Harvard is a matriarchy...