Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd collection of deep thinkers pondering truth in a cornfield last week near Palo Alto, Calif.? See EDUCATION, Time to Think...
Insights & Irreverence. One day last week, an odd procession of professors paced the place, each carrying a cornstalk. They looked like primitive rain worshipers. In a sense they were. Happy fugitives from many a brain-drying university, they were free to ponder-corn. And to their mentor. Botanist Edgar Anderson of St. Louis' Washington University, corn is the kernel of everything...
...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
...life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best friend in a deal with a racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering his own good opinion of himself. The odd thing is that Author Ruark seems to share that good opinion. "Cash" Price, the coldhearted moneyman, has most of the personal characteristics (villainy aside) of Robert Ruark himself: a fondness for Brioni suits, Peal's boots and Joe Bushkin's piano playing; a distaste for the Stork Club...
Before the 130-odd ships that were the core of the Spanish Armada had been provisioned, searched for contraband women, and set creaking out of Lisbon harbor in May of 1588, one of the captains assessed the expedition's chances; unless a miracle occurred, the English could be expected to knock the Spanish to pieces. "So," he finished with heavy irony, "we are sailing against England in the hope of a miracle...