Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfred Bryan, 86, lyricist, writer of about 1,000 songs (among them: Peg o' My Heart; Dardanella; Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine); in Morristown...
...vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country's anti-Nazi underground. Last summer he became a familiar figure across the U.S. as the fifth contestant to hit the jackpot on television's The $64,000 Question.* Later, at the start of one more Arctic expedition, peg-legged Peter Freuchen died of a heart attack...
...University of North Carolina, Man-About-Books Malcolm (Exile's Return) Cowley took one of Chapel Hill's best-known grads down a peg. Thomas (Look Homeward, Angel) Wolfe was not the great modern American novelist (as claimed by none other than Novelist William Faulkner), in fact rates below both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, argued Critic Cowley, adding: "Wolfe never broke out of writing expanded lyric poems about himself...
...nature of Baruch's services to the U.S. from his days as "czar"' of Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board to the days when he presented to the U.N. the U.S.'s "Baruch Plan" for control of atomic energy. She also uses Baruch as a peg on which to hang gratuitous, chapter-length histories of Woodrow Wilson's Administration, World Wars I and II. the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, etc. Standing at the cribside of modern history, Author Coit is footnotoriously conscientious, but the $7.50 tag her publishers have placed on her services...
Chuck Berry was succeeded by Eddie Cochrane, a little man with a big guitar. The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll lit a cigarillo. "Too many people stereotype us--pleated peg pants and blue suede shoes; a calypso shirt and a black leather jacket--and axle grease to part our hair. Not true...