Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite, the paper had no molars. Able reporters and rewritemen, a paper's lifeblood, were vanishing. Star Reporter Bigart, back from Korea, was appalled at the change and defected to the Times...
...loudest cheers came from Stan Musial, vice president of the opposing St. Louis Cardinals. Not even Plate Umpire Chris Pelekoudas could stand aloof as the player rounded third and touched home; Pelekoudas reached out and warmly shook his hand. Willie Mays had just hit the 535th homer of his wonderful career to go ahead of Jimmy Foxx as the greatest righthanded home-run hitter in baseball history...
...Ghetto." At the same time, the Knights have altered the pitch of their national advertising from conversion to cooperation. Says Homer J. L'Hote, head of the Missouri Knights: "We used to try to make others see that we had the right religion. The attitude we now take is that we are on common ground with them, that we will work along with them." The ground has become so common that when Knights invite Masons to a joint meeting, the speaker is frequently a rabbi. Frank C. Staples, grand master of the New York State Masons, says that Masonic...
...shoulder. Outside the Rae Ann dress shop on The Drag, Iraqi Chemistry Student Abdul Khashab, 26, his fiancée Janet Paulos, 20, whom he was to have married next week, and Student-Store Clerk Lana Phillips, 21, fell wounded within seconds of each other. At Sheftall's jewelers, Manager Homer Kelley saw three youths fall wounded outside, was helping to haul them inside when Whitman zeroed in on the shop. Fragments from two bullets tore into Kelley's leg. Windows shattered. Bullets tore huge gashes in the carpeting inside. North of the tower, Associated Press Reporter Robert Heard...
That Duclc Pond. From the solemn solidity of his oils to the airy sprinkle of his watercolors (see opposite page), Homer made reality serve his intense colorism. From the late 1880s on, wherever he traveled, he snapped away with his Eastman Kodak No. 1. Using photos and drawing upon his early training as a lithographer, he captured actuality, studied its nature, and then bent it to his artist's will. In The Lookout, Homer used a Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship...