Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mad Cossack. Then there was Aunt Kate, who seemed to some merely an aging spinster, slightly touched in the head. But on Moss Hart's stage she emerges as a kind of Bronx Blanche DuBois, a woman defying her mean surroundings by living in a world of her own with smelling salts and trailing dresses and a stubborn refusal to go to work "no matter how needy the rest of the family might be. She was "a touching combination of the sane and the ludicrous along with some secret splendor within herself." Come debt or hunger, she would...
Then there was Mr. Axeler, the "Mad Cossack" of the Half Moon Country Club -one of the summer camps for manhunting secretaries and girl-hunting clerks in which young Moss served six miserable years as "social director" and resident clown. The sleepless grind of "making fun" for the guests-an occupation also survived by Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Herman Wouk and dozens of others-consisted of reciting Shakespeare by the campfire, impersonating Fanny Brice, staging a full-length musical each week, supervising endless Spanish Fiestas and Greenwich Village Frolics. Mr. Axeler's establishment in Vermont was really more...
...Mad About Mutuals. The boom in stock ownership in Britain was reflected in many a nation around the world, showed a profound change in the savings habits of people with small incomes. Before, if they saved at all, they put their money under the mattress, or in government securities or postal savings. Today, millions who once looked on stock ownership as the pastime of the rich, and stock exchanges as sinister cabals against the common man, are eagerly investing in capitalism. One of the easiest ways, as in the U.S., is through mutual funds...
...Plume de Ma Tante. Two dozen Frenchmen can't be wrong in this mad and merry revue...
...Balcony is the second of a set of three novels by 34-year-old Author Stacton, an American who was born in Nevada and now travels widely. His first novel, Remember Me, about the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria, was published in England, where it won critical acclaim. Most readers of the current novel will eagerly await the third, to be published in the U.S. later this month. Entitled Segaki, it concerns a 14th century Japanese monk and his search for wisdom...