Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This placed him second to Gene's 143,279. When Old Gene died, Hummon and an ex-Georgia legislator named Roy V. Harris set out to parlay this handful of paper into the governorship. They put their faith in a line in the constitution which read: "If no person shall have [a] majority (of the total votes cast) then from the two persons having the highest number of votes . . . the General Assembly shall immediately elect a governor." Their reasoning: if Old Gene was dead, he couldn't be a person, and if he wasn't a person...
There was something in the air. At the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan was moved to dance in public for the first time in 17 years, happily jounced his globular person (250 Ibs.) through a rumba with Ballerina Yvonna Chauvire (no Ibs.). In Chicago, retired Soapmaker Walter R. Kirk (Jap Rose, Kirk's Flakes) was sued for a separation by Wife Louisa, who said he was 72, charged him with adultery in 22 instances. (Not so, said Kirk-besides...
...passenger takes his seat in an airliner, he is not apt to feel that he is a specially marked person-usually quite the contrary. Young Bill Keyes, settling into his seat in an Eastern Airlines DC-3 in Detroit, felt as air passengers usually feel-partly like a piece of baggage, partly like a lonely soul. As the plane stopped at Cleveland and Akron, the seats filled up around him. Dozing, thinking of his vacation-to-come at home in Boynton, Fla., he scarcely watched as the plane lifted over the Alleghenies and dropped down toward the Carolinas...
...straighten his legs, he can walk," said Dr. Deaver. "One good muscle in his leg is all we need; we can work with that. The average person doesn't use more than 10% of his capacity. There's a great reserve to be tapped...
That mythical person, the average New York State teacher, makes more money than his mythical counterpart in any other state. It was New York City's relatively high-paid teachers who shot the average up: their average salary is $4,100. Such statistics are little consolation to teachers in rural New York districts, some of whom make as low as $1,200 a year...