Word: panjandrums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Frank Raymond Leavis, 82, grand panjandrum of British literary criticism; in Cambridge, England. As a young instructor at Cambridge University, Leavis scandalized his colleagues by daring to lecture on D.H. Lawrence. His reputation grew with the founding in 1932 of Scrutiny, a literary quarterly that measured stringently the moral quality of prose and dismissed both Joyce and Auden for their modernism. An enormously influential figure, he fought his last great battle against C.P. Snow, whom he called "portentously ignorant" for urging the literary world to recognize science...
Many corners later, Stanford Graduate Warner LeRoy, now 41, commands a fantasy world worthy of both H. Warner and M. LeRoy. He is the inventor and presiding panjandrum of two Manhattan eating places that establish him as a restaurateur-impresario sans pareil. Almost with his left hand, he also created Great Adventure, a thriving 1,500-acre, $100 million amusement-safari park in New Jersey. Clearly, Warner LeRoy is a triumph of Ozmosis...
...foreign. He exchanged letters with such luminaries as the British economist Harold J. Laski and the brothers William and Henry James. An excerpt from hi travel diary dated May 26, 1866 reads: "...Then with them [Henry Adams and his family] to Gladstones...had quite a long talk with the Panjandrum G[ladstone] himself--whereat people stared. G in consideration of my wounds made me sit and I was a great...
...Enterprises could be described as bulging with glamour. Apparently it is not quite the right kind of allure for Wall Street. Since 1.1 million shares in the magazine and key-club empire were offered to the public earlier this month, the price has dropped from $23.50 to $15.63. Playboy Panjandrum Hugh Hefner's shares, worth $158 million at the offering price, have fallen about $53 million in value in a little more than two weeks...