Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their unending search for a solution to crossing accidents, roadbuilders have evolved complicated, twisted approaches to mainline highways. But the human element is still the same. One night last week Driver Peter Motola blundered on to the wrong approach to the Union Turnpike in Queens, N.Y., drove into the wrong oneway lane on the turnpike. Result: a head-on crash (see cut). The toll: six dead; five injured...
Respectable people did not often listen to Peter Maurin. But in 1933, his Catholic dynamite set off Dorothy Day, a young Manhattan radical who had flirted with Communism and Socialism until her rereading of Dostoevsky converted her to Roman Catholicism...
With this month's issue, the Catholic Worker begins its 16th year. Old Peter Maurin, now in his 70s, is crippled and numbly dying of arteriosclerosis of the brain. But the Christian dynamite he set off is still blasting away. The Worker's circulation now totals nearly 70,000. Nine other cities besides New York have Houses of Hospitality (one of them in London). Each is staffed by workers who have dedicated themselves to voluntary poverty, pacifism, and the "14 corporal and spiritual works of mercy."* Wrote Editor Day, 50, in the Catholic Worker's anniversary issue...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, May 10). (Atlas still kept an interest in RKO by its ownership of warrants to buy some 300,000 shares of stock.) Despite ample warnings of the change, RKO's staff got so jittery over their new boss that RKO President Nathaniel Peter Rathvon had to pour out soothing syrup: "Mr. Hughes has no hungry army of relatives looking for your jobs, nor substitutes waiting to step into RKO management...
WORLD WITHOUT VISA [499 pp.]-Jean Malaquais, translated by Peter Grant -Doubleday...