Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶James P. Finnegan, onetime collector in St. Louis, now serving a two-year term for bribery at the U.S. penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind.
At week's end Defense Counsel Charles Henry argued that the verdict should be set aside because the award was excessive in view of the token compensatory damages. One of the troubles, he implied, was that Pegler's rambunctious courtroom manner had a poor effect on the jury...
For a summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease." IFD, explained Hayakawa, is a "triple-threat semantic disorder" of Idealization (the making of impossibly ideal demands on life...
Guignol's Band, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. A preposterous but amusing nightmare about pimps, trollops and deadbeats in World War I London (TIME, June 14).
Compound Interest. In Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., a thief returned 150 pennies and a -32-cal. revolver he had stolen from J. D. Molloy, added a note of explanation: "I tried to take these things but my conscience wouldn't let me, and by the way, I oiled your...