Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the death of his wife Helen (of cancer) in 1954, Milton, lonely and lost in the 14-room president's mansion at Penn State, resigned in 1956 to become president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, just 4O-odd miles from the White House and within instant direct-line call from the President...
...Gifts Wanted. The Brazzaville speech contributed mightily to the welcome De Gaulle received at Abidjan, his next stop, though some African political leaders in Dakar had an odd objection. "The general misunderstands us," complained one. "He wants to give us our independence, but we want to wrest it away ourselves...
...They could then smash atoms and transmute elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...
...King's head, to enlist Might in the cause of Right, and Arthur begins to recruit the Round Table. This, of course, brings the peerless Sir Lancelot to court, to Queen Guenever and to the cuckoldry of poor, long-suffering Arthur. Author White tastefully tucks the 20-odd-year dalliance of "Lance" and "Jenny" between the lines rather than between the sheets. What with the lovers' nagging consciences and Arthur's endless tact, this is one triangle that could seem eternal if Author White did not unfold the entire panoply of medieval life to divert the reader...
Last week, just after he turned 61, they buried Big Bill Broonzy in Chicago. His legacy was a battered suitcase, a few pictures, two guitars, and 200-odd recordings in which he preserved a part of his country-the best of the blues...