Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they performed the extraordinary feat of raising $85,675 to launch their magazine. It was Hadden who developed TIME style, in its early incarnation an extraordinary idiom, at once economical, vivid, infuriating and occasionally poetic. While Luce managed the business end, Hadden edited, with a carefully annotated translation of Homer's Iliad by his side; in the back cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward-running sentences ("A ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family...
Your signed editorial, The Fortas Reflex (October 7), in its discussion of Judge Homer Thornberry is inaccurate and reflects either Mr. Bryson's innocence or ignorance of "where it is at" in the South. At the time Judge Thornberry was nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights investigated his Congressional record, found that he consistently supported liberal legislation, and therefore approved his nomination while opposing Governor Coleman...
...dozen years of my life, is historically and constitutionally tragic." Johnson was referring to the fact that the Senate had never actually voted on the merits of the nomination, only on the procedural question of giving it formal consideration. All but forgotten was another loser in the affair: Homer Thornberry, who was to have replaced Fortas as an Associate Justice on the court. Since Fortas will now keep his own seat, there is now no room for Thornberry; his nomination lies in a legal limbo...
Detroit, finally living up to its reputation for awesome plate power, unsheathed its bats in the top of the third. The Tigers sent 15 men to the plate to face four different and equally ineffective Cardinal pitchers and cracked out seven base hits, including Jim Northrup's grand-slam homer...
Norm Cash and veteran Al Kaline both tied a Series record for most hits (two) in one inning, and Kaline, who went three-for-four and batted in four runs, belted his second homer of the Series in the fifth for the final Detroit...