Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pleading ill health, boxing's Mr. Big, James D. Norris, resigned his longtime job as president of the International Boxing Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
Jones: What do you mean? Sounds like you've been spending too much time on Madison Avenue...
...Presidents spent much time writing about other U.S. Presidents. John Quincy Adams, a scholarly man, wrote about Madison and Monroe, and Woodrow Wilson, perhaps too scholarly for his own peace of mind, wrote about Washington before his own arrival at the White House. But taken altogether, presidential literary output about members of the club could be stowed between the covers of a single stout volume. One reason is that few Presidents have been up to it or have had the time for it. Another, possibly more important, is a guild sympathy-a reluctance to trespass on another...
Announcing the permanent loan of a 19th century dress, Washington's Smithsonian museum casually dropped a small footnote to American history. In its statement, the Smithsonian said that the gown once belonged to Dolley (not Dolly) Madison, wife of the nation's fourth President, justified the spelling by recent research at the University of Chicago on the James Madison papers, proving that the famed White House hostess had indeed used the "e" herself. Among references due for a change: the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which calls her Dorothy, the Encyclopedia Americana, which lists her as Dolly...
...rolled-up newspaper. Then Monologuist Mort Sahl, 30, star of The Next President, tigerishly launches into his act. He runs on and on and on, a Beat-Generation Cotton Mather who gives half the names in the news a beating, cracking his whip up Pennsylvania Avenue one minute, down Madison Avenue the next. Ostentatiously irreverent, he is at times witty, oftener merely outspoken...