Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humorist Herb Shriner, whose Larchmont, N.Y., home shelters a 14-rank Wurlitzer salvaged from the old Chicago Arena. Shriner is better known as a harmonica player (he recently played as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony) than as an organist. Says he: "All my life I wanted a mouth organ big enough to set down to, and now I've got it. My wife calls it a mechanical mother...
...ball came down, Columbia defender Herb Gerstein--a more but mighty 160 pounds--leaped up. Both ball and Gerstein converged on Harvard captain and end Pete Hart, who, to the amazement of everybody, came out with the ball in an impossible catch. Dave Ward made the conversion to make the score 12 to 7 and give Harvard new hope. (Hart made two determined catches Saturday...
Once in power. Castro promptly confirmed the suspicions that had bothered many reporters-but not Herb Matthews. After bathing Cuba in blood-551 drumhead executions in four months-Castro edged steadily leftward, toward the shadow of Moscow. What had been a tyranny under Batista remained one under Castro. But even as other newsmen, among them Ruby Hart Phillips, the Times's Havana correspondent for 24 years, reported these facts, Matthews stuck by his adopted rebel. Castro "insists he wants friendship" with the U.S., wrote Matthews in March 1959, "While welcoming American investments, he says he would prefer American loans...
Historians will also have to weigh the damage that Timesman Matthews did by glorifying Castro, the damage he did with his Times editorials, which were influential in delaying U.S. recognition of the true dimensions of the Cuban problem. But with self-assurance. Herb Matthews has already decided what the historians will say: "The only monument I want to leave on earth is for some student years from now to consult the files of The New York Times for information about the Cuban Revolution, and find my byline, and know that he can trust...
Political Career. In 1930, Neighbor Vargas set out to march to Rio and seize control of Brazil. Ousted in 1945, he got to know and like his neighbor's son. Together they sat on Vargas' stoop, sipped the gaucho herb tea called mate through silver straws, talked politics. In 1950, when Vargas swept back to power (this time in a free election), Goulart went along to Rio with him. Goulart watched over the labor movement for Vargas, be came his Labor Minister. In the ministry he embarked on a short but highly successful campaign to buy popular support...