Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 80, versatile sculptor, painter, etcher, one of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young's 300-odd grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument...
...word statement was sparked by Alabama-born Dr. Herman L. Turner, pastor of Atlanta's Covenant Presbyterian Church, and written by an informal group of 30-odd ministers who agreed with him that "the time had arrived when we had to say something." Other Southern church groups have spoken out against segregation more or less directly, but the Georgia statement is far the firmest and the most widely based. Specifically, the Georgia ministers flatly condemned the oft-repeated threat by Governor Marvin Griffin et al. to abolish the public school system in order to circumvent the Supreme Court...
Mayor Sullivan would not predict to whom the second choices of his thousand-odd surplus votes would go. Under proportional representation, votes for losing candidates and ballots chosen at random from the surplus votes of a winning candidate are given to the voter's second choice...
Much of the selling was in odd lots (less than 100 shares) from all across the U.S., and stocks were dumped at any price in a flurry of panicky selling by small investors, often in direct contradiction to the economic facts. The market rout was also aided by professional short selling, and forced sales to meet margin calls from brokers (though such calls went out to only about 5% of margin accounts...
McNulty, himself an ex-altar boy (at St. Mary's, Lawrence, Mass.) fell into no better company than his own. He was a man much loved by newspapermen, horse-players, bartenders, dogs, writers, children and other odd characters who knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter, but like the work of his own "sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty...