Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rupertus exploded in a barrage of blistering Marine denunciation. After listening for a minute or two-still at attention -Smith whipped out a notebook and began taking down his superior's remarks in his odd shorthand. "And that," another officer recalled, "was just about the way Smith was. He would never have said anything back to Rupertus, because he [Smith] was a marine by the books. The general was talking, so Smith just stood there like he was in staff meeting, taking notes...
Adroitly sidestepping 22-month-old Prince Charles, who expressed a desire to break open the camera and pull out the "birdie," Britain's Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton snapped the shutter 100-odd times, presented the world with the first pictures of Princess Elizabeth's second-born, Princess Anne. Like any other one-month-old, the young princess went through most of the ordeal either crying or looking bored, but Photographer Beaton reported that she did smile once, displaying a perfect set of pink gums...
...December, 40-odd projected productions, many of them by practised hands, will have scrambled for berths in Broadway's 17 unoccupied theaters. As usual, playgoers can look forward to a full schedule of musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous...
...Manhattan last week, the TV industry was mulling over the advice of a practicing psychologist. Vienna-born Dr. Ernest Dichter had told his 60-odd corporate clients that U.S. women who claim they don't like daytime TV are only fooling...
Died. William Olaf Stapledon, 64 Egypt-born British philosopher (A Modern Theory of Ethics) and fiction writer (such early-Wellsian fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...