Word: pickwickian
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Dreams & Danger. Most of the time, President Russell-a gentle man of Pickwickian build and conservative bent-has tried to walk straight down the middle of 120th Street. Last week, as he prepared to step down in favor of his like-minded former student, T.C.'s Dean Hollis Caswell, 52, President Russell could claim with justice that, at their best, T.C.'s doctrines have injected new humanity and freedom into the schools. But at their worst (as critics point out), they could lead to a wholesale intellectual retreat into a never-never land of growth without goal...
...trade practice for anyone except A. N. Marquis Co. to use the title without permission. Last week, as the biennial new edition was readied for sale, Who's Who's owner and editor Wheeler Sammons, 64, took formal steps to make the book an institution. Sammons, a Pickwickian-looking arbiter of fame who considers listing in his book to be roughly the American equivalent of making the Queen's Honors List, set up a nonprofit foundation with a board of trustees to protect Who's Who's integrity and put its profits into biographical research...
...Clendening had a Pickwickian zest for life.* But bad health and zest do not go together. Last week Health Expert Clendening, 60, convinced that his own health was getting bad, cut his throat...
...Treasury Catto first came into intimate contact with John Maynard Keynes, another wartime Treasury advisor. Chance gave the two men adjoining offices in the old Board of Trade building. To the surprise of all they became fast friends. The gaunt, six-foot Keynes had an unparalleled intellectual equipment. Plump, Pickwickian, smiling Lord Catto had the practical experience which Keynes lacked. Together they made a sure-footed team - Keynes operating in the world of high theory, always able to give three solutions to any problem; Catto insisting that only one could be chosen. When the time came for Britain to propose...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, 62, died suddenly last week. He was five feet high, ruddily Pickwickian in appearance, utterly efficient, unoriginal and orthodox. Wrote the London Economist: "Starting at the Exchequer in 1940 from the premise of sound and conventional budgeting, Sir Kingsley Wood was the Chancellor in office when this country crossed into the land of promise where the nation's real resources and not its money became the basis of public economics. . . ." Mourned Winston Churchill: "We shall not easily fill...