Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schlaeppi and Ed Martin are veteran harriers who have been hampered by injuries so far this fall and both remain big question marks in the team picture. If both these men get back into running condition, the overall prospect will be brightened considerably...
...they often let pass without comment the idle jokes and comments on Southern life. They overlook the professor's aspersion on Faubus and the preacher's praise of Martin Luther King...
...Martin Street has "no parking--tow away zone" signs on the odd-numbered side, but no signs whatsoever on the even side. The normal propensity of an unsuspecting person would be to avoid the odd side at all times and to assume that parking on the unposted side was allowable at all times. But actually, this is true only in February, April, June, August October, and December. In all other months a car must be parked on the even side during the day and until 1 a.m.; at 1 a.m. it must be towed to the odd side...
...last work in Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1950, finished five years later in Rome, called it "the most difficult statue I have made." Milles early turned down the suggested subject for the memorial, a figure of the Good Samaritan, in favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope to his heroic theme, Milles carved...
...Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical violence, and the book careens off on a hounds-and-hares chase that dooms Patient Treevly and involves the pragmatic Dr. Eichner in an auto crash, murder, and the machinations of a monstrous private eye named Martin Frost...