Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only living one). Most recently he has been living and working in the tower of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, mainly putting together the notes which he has jotted down during ocean voyages and waits in railway and air terminals. The notes are his recollections of 70-odd years-his memoirs, his convictions and his self-vindication. He has finished three volumes and has started a fourth. He writes in pencil, doing a good deal of crossing out and writing over, sitting at a large desk from which, by stretching, he can look down 31 stories on the disordered...
...most carefully guarded files in the Littauer Building is a folder of eighty odd sketches of members of the Economics Department by Professor Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the building regard the collection jealously as theirs by right of salvage; after each conference one of them Leontief's memorandum pad, date it, and add it to the series. "Not many professors know about it," says the current holder. "But some of them sneak in once in a while to see themselves...
...every last newsman did turn out at the press conference in Abilene's Plaza Theater, along with some 200-odd Ike supporters. To the dismay of newsmen, the supporters applauded every.time Ike handled a tough one, although applause at a press conference is frowned...
...since he was 15, he learned to draw with chalk as an orphan at a French school in Beirut, soon set out for Paris, doing sidewalk portraits along the way for carfare. In the early '30s, Bedikian spurned the schools and studied alone at the Louvre. He took odd jobs retouching photos for rent money, each night made the rounds of his friends' homes to be sure of a dinner. For eight years his only success was a single picture shown at the 1936 Beaux Arts salon, and that brought no whoops from the critics...
...then she conned her accountant father or telephone-operator mother out of $10, and bought a few dozen of her own. "I guess I lied all the time," she say's. "I played it cool at home; I was real quiet and cagey. I didn't act odd, and they never thought anything was up; they never got hip . . . [I] used to be proud of lying...