Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prison at Joliet, Ill. He had finished his breakfast of stewed fruit, hot cereal, a cinnamon roll and coffee, taken the first of his three daily insulin shots, worked for more than an hour at his job of clerk in the prison's master mechanic's office. Now a paunchy, balding diabetic of 53. he walked with Kidnaper Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy to the office of Warden Joseph Ragen. Said Ragen to Prisoner 9306-D : "Leopold, you and Touhy have been granted paroles." Breathed Nathan Leopold, the nation's most publicized convict: "Thank the Lord...
...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...
...banquet for Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite...
Musicians, like other artists, occasionally regard themselves as pioneers whose wagon train to the mountains of truth and beauty is encircled by whooping savages : the critics. Last week New York Philharmonic Wagon Master Leonard Bernstein, whose hide has been punctured by as many arrows as any, leveled his Winchester at a particular pesky redskin. Asked what he thought of music critics by Reporter Martin Agronsky on NBC-TV's Look Here show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self...
Both White and Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, expressed concern about the strain on the Faculty of the more individualized tutorial teaching proposed...