Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boldest critic was a tall, husky, 35-year-old wartime partisan fighter named Branko Copic, a philosophy student turned writer. Copic, in a series of shattering satires that began last August in the Communist literary organ Knjizevne No-vine (Literary Gazette), scored direct hits on the most unpopular people of Yugoslavia-the Communist bureaucrats and their wives who lived off what fat there was in the hungry land. Copic's articles were reinforced by the cartoons of a popular artist who calls himself "Dzumhur" (Jester...
Like the Corps, the monthly Gazette has earned a solid reputation of its own. Started in 1916 as a semiofficial organ, the magazine's circulation has climbed from 744 in 1932 to its present 18,000, now numbers among its subscribers 28 foreign governments, including the Soviet Union (six copies). A rotating board of editors, all Marine officers, gives its articles on battle tactics, training methods and other aspects of military science an authoritative tone. The Gazette, which is wholly selfsupporting, also plays an important role in the continuous indoctrination of Marines, never lets them forget their blood & glory...
...brothers live as differently as they dress. George dwells (with son-in-law Sheldon Stewart) in a spacious Georgian house in Montclair, N.J., where he lives a lonely life despite the ministrations of ten servants. He amuses himself watching television (his favorite: Arthur Godfrey), listening to an electric organ played with automatic rolls, working jigsaw puzzles and tinkering with radio and TV sets. In the summer, he allows himself a suite at the ocean-side Monmouth Hotel in Spring Lake, N.J., but commutes to the office every day. He has never taken a vacation...
First, the audience got to its feet for a robust Star-Spangled Banner and a dignified God Save the King. Then, for two hours, the music lovers watched Sir Thomas, one of the most graphic conductors of them all, play his perfectly disciplined orchestra like an organ. They heard great music played to the hilt with an unmistakably British accent...
Across the road from his office was Kim's private air-raid bunker, 70 to 100 feet underground and connected by a tunnel with the residence of his Russian advisers. In the bunker Kim had complete living quarters, a music room with an organ and a one-chair barber shop...