Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signed contract with Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. (New York bankers) for investment of at least $100 million in an area still to be chosen...
...Trapeze" of the air shows. What he wanted to prove was that precise and darting aggression spelled air power, but nobody cared. And when his noncommissioned wingmen flunked their tests for commissions, his gorge rose hot as a Louisiana pepper, and he resigned his own commission, saying: "I'm glad to get out. They're still running on the old 1917 ideas...
Under the sign of The Bull (a hotel in Buckinghamshire, England), Cinemango Jayne Mansfield played a favorite role, herself, for an Evening Standard interviewer. "I'm absolutely against lust," she breathed. "It's very immoral, in my opinion. What I'm against is [pause]-what does salacious desire mean? [Pause.] Yes, that's what I'm against-salacious desire. What you've got to have is inner sexiness and inner cleanliness. Sex without love isn't anything. [Pause.] Mind you, love without sex isn't much, either...
July 31--Harvard-M.I.T. Series, Sanders Theater, 8:30, John Crowe Ransom, Poetry Reading...
...gravitate to solutions by prodigies of deduction. Amateur Detective Ambrose Usher, an Oxford don, is different. Says a baffled friend: "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things. You walk into a perfectly quiet situation . . ." Replies Ambrose: "Oh, dear. Yes, yes. It may be. I'm the apple itself, perhaps. What an awkward role...