Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth Estate. In a way, Killian will be an odd sort of president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support himself as a student, he went to work for the Technology Review, stayed until 1939 when President Karl T. Compton made him his executive assistant. A kindly and laconic man who likes hiking and the novels of George
...library, the aging Morgan spent more & more of his time, too. He never read the books that surrounded him, but he liked to sit there and play solitaire by the hour. His conversations with Belle were seldom long ("You think we should have that book? Buy it!"). But he liked to have her read the Bible aloud to him, or sit with him when he was troubled about something. One such time, Belle remembers, she caught him in a mistake in solitaire. "Do you accuse me of cheating?" he thundered. "Well, then . . . I'll begin again." On that occasion...
...from Dewey's debate last May with Harold E. Stassen, in which Dewey opposed outlawing the Communist Party. But, said Ben Feinberg: "This is different. Shall we permit known Communists ... to take our youths when they are most impressionable and let them teach subversive doctrines? Freedom of speech never contemplated the power to destroy the system that guarantees that freedom...
...opening show ran $5,200 over its budget and was a wretched failure. McCrary knocked over an easel loaded with placards which never did get put back in proper order; gremlins got into the balopticon (magic lantern), and the audio-control system went haywire. A less tenacious man than McCrary might have been crushed by the reviews (Variety: ". . . fantastically bad"; New York Times: ". . . involved hocus-pocus...
...Trade Secrets. An exception to the rule that a player who doesn't graduate from Class D (baseball's lowest) after one or two years will never make a big-leaguer, Sain finally made the grade to Nashville. Then, in 1942, thanks to a wartime pitcher shortage, he found himself in a Boston Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went...