Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio message from Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., was brief and urgent. An epidemic of diphtheria had broken out in an Indian village on the Stoney River; 50-odd stricken natives needed help at once. From Whitehorse, Indian Affairs' Department Nurse Amy Wilson flew to Fort St. John; Nurse Aileen Bond started out from Dawson Creek, B.C. Last week the British Columbia Health Department released Nurse Bond's report on their three-week-long fight against the disease...
Like all researchers before him, Dr. Boyce is at a loss to explain why man is born with an appendix. It serves no known purpose. But he has gathered a lot of odd facts about the useless, troublesome appendage...
...gets a grotesquely comic sequence out of an eerie four-year-old boy leading a street crowd in pursuit of Gotten while the accompanying zither jangles like a nickelodeon piano. At every turn, he exploits the hulking shadows and wet, back-lighted cobblestones of Vienna at night. Cameraman Robert (Odd Man Out) Krasker gives beautiful expression to Reed's photogenic tricks, e.g., as a train chugs out of the station, nothing is seen but the light patterns of its windows projected across a cloud of steam...
...have a mind like blotting paper," British Lexicographer Eric Partridge once said. In the past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...
...TIME, Sept. 12), Flair's Vol. I, No. 1 was full of tricks. Samples: a "window" in the cover permitting a partial view of the next page, an accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud...