Word: odd
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Until he became linked with Hughes, Irving devoted himself to a life of semi-bohemian writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
...Hughes affair appeared last week to be headed toward a denouement. Its elaborate mysteries began to unravel a bit. Its bafflements still invited ingenious hypotheses, yet it seemed likely that after episodes as odd as the circumstances of Howard Hughes' own life, the truth of the matter was about to emerge. In a reverse jigsaw-puzzle effect, the outlines of the truth began to take form as Author Clifford Irving's account of how he had assembled the Hughes manuscript began to crumble...
...thesis on "Psychological and Social Analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Childhood," Nona Ferdon found something no one else seems to have noticed in a diary that Roosevelt kept during 1902 and 1903, when he was at Harvard. In four entries, there appears a string of numbers and odd symbols. Eventually, a newspaper story produced enough hints from amateur code breakers to show that the numbers stood for vowels (1A, 2-E, etc.), and the symbols were simply unfinished letters. The surprisingly tame translation: "Spent the evening on the lawn and Alice confided in me." Next day: "Worried over...
Unfortunately, Busia and his idealistic colleagues reckoned without the army. The oversight was odd, since it was the army that in 1966 had overthrown Ghana's first civilian government, the tyrannical regime of Kwame Nkrumah, and it was the army that had allowed the elections that brought the Busia government to power three years later. Last week the army moved again. Three days after the end of Pat Nixon's official visit, and two days after Busia had flown to London for treatment of an eye ailment, the first brigade of the Ghanaian army moved...
...Odd jobs followed as a logger, well rigger, powder monkey and ranch hand. In between, he got deeper into crime. He was convicted in Nebraska on a robbery charge, and while serving that sentence, was brought to trial for a Minnesota gas-station holdup in which he was accused of shooting the attendant. "Coming in for 40 years." he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce recently, "I felt, well, if I was going to do anything with my life, I'd have to do it here. I always enjoyed reading, so I turned to writing...