Word: jovialness
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...hate to lose him," said the warden. "Where else could I get an intelligent, dedicated man who is glad to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week?" For six and a half years, Orville Enoch Hodge had been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite...
American System? "And now,"breezed a newly jovial De Gaulle on his return to the Elysée Palace last week, "we can get down to serious things." He would almost certainly interpret this victory as support for all his intransigent positions -his opposition to negotiations with Russia over Berlin, his longing for a nuclear force de frappe of his own, and his ultimate vision of a Europe united under French leadership...
Died. Peter Schlumbohm, 66, jovial German-born U.S. chemist who believed that "a coffeepot should not be a steam engine," in the early 1940s invented the simple Chemex coffeemaker that gently filtered the coffee and made him rich; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
With fond memories of the jovial crown prince who spent the wartime years in the Highlands, rallying and training his exiled countrymen to fight the Nazis, the usually solemn Scots of Edinburgh gave visiting King Olav V of Norway, 59, a tumultuous welcome. King Olav's merry ways broke down all reserve. Stepping from his coach at Edinburgh's Princes Street station, he gallantly saluted Queen Elizabeth II, then bussed her on the cheek; in courtly succession, he kissed the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. As he rode next to the Queen...
Popovich was picked for the Soviet space program in 1960. His jovial spirits often relieved the tedium of many of the training missions at the Russian space center. During one long isolation test in a cramped training capsule, he combatted boredom by dancing and singing operatic arias with such gusto that scientists and doctors often gathered to listen. A voracious reader, Popovich is an admirer of Hemingway and Stendhal, can quote passages from the works of Soviet Poets Sergei Yesenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Ironically, both Yesenin and Mayakovsky committed suicide after becoming disenchanted with Communism...