Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War I, which depleted the ranks of royalty and otherwise lowered the tone of society, took some of the luster off Grace Vanderbilt's crown. High taxes and World War II dealt her even harder blows. The famed Vanderbilt hospitality was offered to some odd citizens indeed: among them was Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko, whom Mrs. Vanderbilt regaled with reminiscences of the late Czar Nicholas. After her husband's death in 1942, Grace Vanderbilt abandoned to the wreckers the 58-room Fifth Avenue mansion which had cost her husband's grandfather...
...Grounded travelers, hung up in Gander for periods varying from an hour or two for refueling to several days for bad weather, have little choice but to haunt the airport's brawling, barnlike waiting room in a bedlam of children's cries and squawking announcements by 20-odd airlines. Grand Falls (pop. 16,059), the nearest town of any size, is three hours away by slow train. Three-day-old newspapers, and long, morose drinks of potent Newfoundland "screech" (rum) at the crowded bar* are the chief available diversions from the monotony of staring at the cheerless landscape...
Italy's five-year law, which stripped citizenship rights from those who held office under Mussolini, expired last week. Among the 2,000-odd ex-Fascist officials who may now vote and hold public office: former Marshal Rodolfo Graziani; Prince Junio Valeric Borghese, leader of the neo-Fascist M.S.I, group; and Giuseppe Bottai, onetime member of the Great Fascist Council...
Blue-Eyed Monster. Dr. Smith's long quest began in 1938, when a South African trawler caught an odd, steel-blue fish off East London. The fish had large blue eyes, teeth like a cat, and four clumsy fins that looked a bit like legs. It lived for three hours, oozed oil from under its scales, bit the captain, and was taken ashore, where a local naturalist recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a fish which zoologists had believed extinct for at least 50 million years. Coelacanths appeared 300 million years ago and were much like...
...clincher, Tony rode Winner No. 390, two more than the longtime record of 388, set by Walter Miller in 1906 and tied in 1950 by Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culm one.* For little (5 ft. 2 in., 106 Ibs.) Tony DeSpirito, the record was a victory scored against long odds. Son of a Lawrence (Mass.) millworker, Tony knew nothing about horses until he quit school two years ago and began hanging around nearby Rockingham Park. He got odd jobs as a "hot walker" and exercise boy and, finally, his big chance as a jockey. But he rode so badly...