Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mich. In Washington he has not yet picked up a club, lives in a one-bedroom apartment where Mrs. Brucker collects Meissen china and 3-D photos. Their son is a third-generation lawyer in Detroit. Even-keeled Wilber Brucker neither drinks nor smokes, laughs readily and hail-fellows Odd Fellows, Masons, and a host of other fraternal brothers. At a recent Washington party he met a Soviet general, who asked if he had ever seen military service. "I was a corporal in the Army," said Brucker genially. "Well," said the Russian consolingly to the U.S. Army's boss...
...Hoffner, son of a Russian immigrant baker, worked as a runner in Wall Street, an odd-jobs man in a 5 & 10? store. At the age of 22 he served 30 months in jail for attempted grand larceny, and at 27 he got into more serious trouble. In August 1940, police arrested him as he was walking his dog outside his Brooklyn home, and hauled him off to the station. Not until much later was Hoffner told that a bartender had been shot dead in a restaurant holdup in Jamaica, eleven miles from where Hoffner had been at the time...
Ever since Korea's crusty old President Syngman Rheer exploded at finding a Buddhist monk living in a temple with his wife and four children (TIME. Jan. 3), 500 celibate monks and 160 celibate nuns have looked forward to casting the 5,000-odd married monks from the best temples...
Straight-Line Theory. How could all this be? The 1,000-odd doctors who sat in on the polio symposium learned something of this from Dr. Salk himself. They had gone there, full of admiration and curiosity, to hear him and see him get a $10,000 award* for his achievements. They listened attentively, some with obvious puzzlement, as he read a long and tightly technical report. Its net: mass manufacture was not the same as making vaccine in his precisely controlled laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh...
Heartbreak on the Staff. Country Gentleman's 75-odd staffers, who will not go along with their magazine to Farm Journal, were taken completely by surprise. "It breaks my heart," said Satevepost Editor Ben Hibbs, who for 13 years (1929-42) was an editor of Country Gentleman. But for Curtis the sale was no heartbreak...