Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caller was Colonel Adib Shishekly, Syria's publicity-shy strong man, and he had come to ask a favor of his Lebanese neighbor. Iraq wanted to condemn him as a dictator at the next meeting of the Arab League, Shishekly wanted the charge defeated. King Talal of Jordan had already offered Shishekly his support. Egypt and Saudi-Arabia would automatically oppose anything suggested by Iraq's pro-British Premier Nuri es-Said. Lebanon soon made it clear that it would do likewise. Thus assured, Shishekly rode off to Damascus, and went back to slapping one decree after another...
MICHAEL SCOTT is a clergyman of the Church of England. He is a man who has tried to "be absolutely logical about being a Christian, and to carry the logic into public life and politics. He has tried to practice such uncomfortable texts as "Thou shalt love thy neighbor." In doing so he has found himself in a position where many sincere men regard him as a mischievous crank, a self-advertising fanatic and an easy tool for Communists. Many other men regard him as their only effective friend in politics, as a man who intends to do good...
...Chase. As he drove off, he was stopped by a neighbor named Clifford McDonnell, who had heard the telephone alarm. Ellis fired again and left McDonnell bleeding from a wound in the neck. A few minutes later his car stalled and another neighbor named Deo Gardner and two men drove up beside him in the dark. Answering a question, Ellis shouted: "I hear there's been somebody murdered back up the river." Then he shot and killed Gardner...
Most of the citizens of Waco, Texas (pop. 84,706) don't know it yet, but one of their most prominent neighbors is about to become a famous writer. Waco knows Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 57, as a wealthy, friendly man who owns so much real estate that it takes all his time to manage it. But, until a few days ago, not even his close friends knew what Bachelor Cooper has been doing a good many quiet mornings and nights in the attic office in his big, late-Victorian house. For eleven years, Neighbor Cooper has been writing...
Proust to Plato. Offstage, the Laughtons live a quietly busy life in a small (for Hollywood), eleven-room house that has little ground of its own but, happily, faces on 50 acres of a neighbor's orchards. Elsa works steadily at her non-paying job with Hollywood's Turnabout Theater (TIME, May 24, 1948), and shuttles between nightclub engagements in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Charles has rearranged their living room into a studio where he trains the dedicated and largely unknown young actors of the Charles Laughton Players. When he goes to bed, he surrounds himself with books...