Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hockey Scores & Tuna Fish. St. Petersburg's retired oldtimers know exactly what they want in a newspaper, and it is up to the Times to give it to them. Each day, the paper devotes several columns to bridge, checkers, baseball, club meetings, roque and shuffleboard. The casualty list from a Vermont train wreck will be carried in full; hockey scores from Canada appear regularly; the opening of a new bridge in Philadelphia may not make Pittsburgh papers, but it is likely to appear in the St. Petersburg Times, whose old subscribers come from all over the U.S. and Canada...
Carol Stubblefield, 24, wife of an Idaho beet farmer, knew she was going to have twins, but not until they were born a month prematurely in late June, did she know that they were joined ("Siamese"). The high-powered surgical squad that prepared to separate Jeanett Kim from Denett Lin Stubblefield at the University of Oregon Hospitals in Portland knew that it would be an immensely difficult task, but not until the operation was far advanced did they know how difficult...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel...
...coal to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of German steel back to the States at handsome profits. When the war was over, he unloaded 50,000 tons of top-priced steel to desperate Ruhr traders just as the price broke. Said Willy: "You cannot learn hat; you must know it by instinct...
...ironies, despite the poignant musings of the prisoner, the book is disappointing. Compared with the author's superior novels, it is only a kind of detour de force. It may be that, unlike Kafka, Nabokov sacrificed horror to hallucination -or that the young Nabokov did not really know what he was trying to say. Whether Cincinnatus was condemned by wicked masters, or whether he was self-condemned by his own conscience, the ending is both enigmatic and unsatisfactory; for, Nabokov appears to be saying, Cincinnatus can banish the carnival of evil around him simply by coming to his senses...