Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraud in newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). In 86 minutes and twelve arrests they cracked the international racket that, by securing advance answers to the contests, swindled U.S. newspapers for more than a year. The transcontinental swoop bagged two key figures in Detroit: Walter Rex Johnston, 30, part-time car salesman whom the FBI identified as chief architect and brains of the swindle ring, and a key Johnston lieutenant, Harry H. Balk, 33, theatrical booking agent. Two Canadians who managed the flow of puzzle information were accused of using the mails and long-distance telephone to defraud, but were...
...Adler, the column in the Sun-Times is "a part of the general education function I am trying to perform in my lectures, Great Book series, and seminars. Admittedly, the column may be for a minority, but it's a substantial minority." Sun-Times Executive Editor Lawrence S. Fanning, who calls Adler "a kind of poor man's Plato," is as enthusiastic as Adler. Says he: "If we can move a few people away from the comic strips and into this kind of material, it seems to me that the paper is performing one of its essential functions...
...partisan who overstated the material abundance of America, Hamlett said gently that "Yes, there are poor people in Los Angeles, too." Moroccans are much concerned with race prejudice in the U.S., listen intently to Hamlett's explanations that the widely reported outrages are only part of the story...
...Ford grants, for the most part, will allow expansion of topflight teacher-training programs already under way. Recipients: Barnard, $70,000; Brown, $1,047,000; Chicago, $2,400,000; California's Claremont Graduate School, $425,000; Duke, $294,210; George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., $600,000; Harvard, $2,800,000; Stanford, $900,000; Wisconsin...
Once, while attending a musical in Manhattan with other company executives, he drafted the announcement of a major reorganization of American's divisions between the acts, using an aide's shoulder as his desk. When the British Broadcasting Corp. recently asked him to take part in a small-car panel, and submitted a list of ten questions beforehand, Romney summoned an aide. The aide began briefing him, but Romney cut him short. "Never mind the answers," he said. "Just give me the questions...