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...Harvard, called the idea of condensing news "disgusting and disgraceful." But Franklin D. Roosevelt praised the new creation, and so did Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. At any rate, TIME caught on, and it became part of the American and world scene, its presence reaffirmed in humor, fiction and legend. Its early style with its inverted prose and piled-up adjectives was endlessly spoofed, notably in a parody by Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind...
Simenon's erotic exploits, on the other hand, while undoubtedly extensive, hover in the realm of legend. Six years ago, he boasted to a Swiss interviewer that he had known 10,000 women, 8,000 of them prostitutes. He later revised his estimate to "tens of thousands." Moreover, he professed to see nothing extraordinary in it: "It's quite a normal number-even banal...
...Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet singing of arms and the man was not all that Virgil's fellow Romans in the 1st century B.C. would have understood him to mean. They had already been thoroughly schooled on who Aeneas was and what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been in doubt. Fitzgerald's rendition of Virgil's famous introduction may offend purists. It is not, strictly speaking, literal, but something more than that: a recapturing of implicit meanings in explicit terms...
...oldtime radio announcer is supposed to have intoned, "here is a new song by George Gershwin and his lovely wife Ira." Such is the curse of being "the other one," of being merely famous when your younger brother is a legend in American music. Even within his family, Ira was heir to the unintentional slight: his father Morris could remember George's melodies, but to him Ira's song title Fascinating Rhythm was Fashion on the River. Working in George's immense shadow bred a wry modesty in Ira. For a 1959 collection of his lyrics...
SENTENCED. Billy Cannon, 46, former pro football star and a living legend in Louisiana, where he earned a 1959 Heisman Trophy as running back for L.S.U.; to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty, after he pleaded guilty to involvement in a massive counterfeiting scheme; in Baton Rouge. A successful Baton Rouge orthodontist after he retired from football in 1970, Cannon appeared to be a model citizen until federal investigators in July traced a staggering $6 million in bogus $100 bills...