Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audisio's career began in the dirty northern industrial town of Alessandria, where he grew up in a squalor he swore to escape. He rose to the top of his class in school, got a job making Borsalino hats (which are to Stetsons what Isotta Fraschinis are to Oldsmobiles); during the depression he lived squalidly in a tiny apartment with his wife, a seamstress. He was arrested for Communist agitation and when he got out of jail after five years, things were even worse ("We lived on boiled milk and boiled potatoes...
Said one: "Everybody is raiding everybody else. We just don't have the kind of money that Northern colleges can throw around-some Harvard professors make more money than our governor. Northern schools bid up the rank, too, offering associate professorships to instructors. It takes 25 years to build a university faculty-and only two to destroy...
Died. Sir Norman Mcleod Buchan, 84, 18th Earl of Caithness, head of the ancient Highland family that once controlled northern Scotland† and the Orkney Isles; in Castle Auchmacoy, Scotland...
...From northern Shropshire down to the Bristol Channel, the Severn swirled over its highest known flood marks. Many Yorkshire mine pits were inundated-another serious setback for coal production...
...Bishop of Fulham has to be a special kind of bishop. His diocese covers some 800,000 square miles of northern Europe, from Biarritz to Iceland. His flock consists mainly of Englishmen-on-holiday, diplomatic service staffs, finishing-school girls, other British transients and trippers. His duties involve constant travel, and an interminable round of social occasions that would deepen the rings under the eyes of a gossip columnist. But the new Bishop of Fulham who was consecrated at St. Paul's this week could hardly wait to start his peripatetic...