Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EACH week as TIME'S press run begins in Chicago, one of the first copies off the press is sealed in an envelope marked "Not for Release" and rushed special delivery to nearby Glencoe, Ill. By Tuesday noon, a day before TIME appears on most newsstands, Mrs. Gerald F. Miner, a 52-year-old grandmother, has begun leafing through her copy. Then a second and more specialized TIME press run begins. The sound, instead of the roar of rotary presses, is the soft plunk of a six-key braille typewriter. Mrs. Miner is laboriously pecking out TIME...
Last week, after he had appeared as a Government witness in the contempt trial of White Supremacist John Kasper and 15 Clinton citizens. Editor Wells's questions were resoundingly answered at the National Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors' annual convention in Car bon'dale, Ill. There Wells received...
...Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which ranged from starkly etched studies of Italian peasants and fisherfolk to whimsical mockery of intellectuals and contemporary ideologies, rank him high among Italy's contemporary authors...
...Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different." i.e., to be what...
...days. By then, her three older sisters will be home from school. Said Dr. Stevens: "If our luck holds, either Antonia or Mark should be ready to pass on the spots to the others." Antonia protested: "I don't want measles-I don't want to be ill." But brother Mark rebuked her. "Daddy says you must. It's all something to do with babies. They might be ill...