Word: loring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lehman, 46, has no need of borrowed names. Grandnephew of the late Herbert Lehman, who as financier, philanthropist, Governor and Senator made the name part of New York lore, Orin took up the family's anti-Tammany tradition last fall when he ran against the organization in a primary for the Democratic nomination as comptroller and came in second. Though he lost a leg in World War II while serving as an artillery-spotter pilot, Orin is hyperactive in a multiplicity of good works, ranging from civil rights to rehabilitation of the physically handicapped, stumped seven gallant miles...
Last but not least, Wall Street is perhaps the most superstitious of all business neighborhoods. And the omens look good: according to the lore of the Street, when the little odd-lotter starts buying heavily, the market will soon take a dive. But when the odd-lotter sells, the market will rise. Right now, he is selling. Anyway, all such tea leaves aside, the Dow-Jones average seems certain to pass the 1000 mark within days or weeks...
...world's opera houses. Long the foremost interpreter of German lieder, he only recently turned to opera on a more than part-time basis, now divides his time equally between the two mediums. He is, essentially, the thinking man's baritone. With a musicologist's lore and fidelity to the text, he meticulously works out each vocal inflection until, as one critic put it, "he not only knows what he sings, but also why he sings." Not a splashy, booming singer, he achieves the utmost theatrical effect with subtle shadings of his husky, light-timbered voice...
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. A classic collection of authentic, unromanticized Western lore about the wild mustangs and the men who brutally tamed and rode them in the conquest of the continent...
...holdout lore, a classic is another San Francisco case. The holdout owned a four-story building at Kearny and Geary streets. Developers assembled sites on either side of him, proposed to build an eight-story office building on the corner. The holdout held out too long, and the developers simply built their buildings around him. Outraged at losing a bundle, he built two concrete "spite walls" four stories up from the top of his own building, shutting off virtually all the window exposure of his two tall neighbors...