Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These were the qualities that had made President Eisenhower stick with Stassen long after he had made an enemy of nearly everyone else in the Administration with his odd maneuverings, e.g., his abortive attempt to dump Vice President Richard Nixon from the Republican ticket in 1956, and his continued sniping at State Secretary John Foster Dulles' policy on disarmament negotiations withRussia (TIME, Jan. 30). Moving to Pennsylvania, where he has maintained voting residence since his 3½-year stint as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen figures to be just about as welcome as he was in Washington...
...Mabel Mercer (Atlantic; 2 LPs). In a triumph of mind over voice, Songstress Mercer runs through 20-odd songs she made famous in small cafés. Her voice, never sumptuous, wobbles badly in such numbers as Let Me Love You and You Will Wear Velvet, but the phrasing is impeccable, and she can still infuse songs like Some Fine Day and The End of a Love Affair with an emotional charge that other singers never guessed was there...
...about clawing my way up the face of a cliff." At 18 he clawed his way onto the old Los Angeles Record because "at the time I was under the misapprehension that being on an afternoon paper meant that you worked only in the afternoon." Ever since, through numberless odd jobs on newspapers and in radio, he has been getting up "at the crack of dawn and hating every morning...
...odd years since Education earned its "E" as a science, the language of the teacher has undergone a gobbledygookish change. A kid no longer has pals; he has a "peer group." He does not study subjects but goes through "a learning experience." And his job often seems less to master the three Rs than to satisfy his "real life" and/or "felt needs." In a new book called Translations from the English (Simon & Schuster; $1.95), Robert Paul Smith, author of the bestselling "Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing.", takes up the problem of how to understand teachers...
Brain behind Brain is young (28), burly Pierre Bellemare (who also originated a similar show in Italy), a TV program contractor, who believes in "people doing things, not just saying them." As a result, the studio is clogged from week to week with such odd items as a World War I airplane, a collection of vintage automobiles, a chunk of a 17th century galleon. Bellemare draws on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Brawn, goes after horse jumpers, crossbow experts and ice skaters (Amateur Skater Roger Tourne broke the 500-meter record for France on the show) as well as conventional...