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Random House can also rightfully claim that although its words are fewer, many are newer. It includes such current terms as the Yiddish chutzpa ("unmitigated effrontery or impudence"), ye-ye ("of, pertaining to, or characteristic of young sophisticates"), and even Mary Poppins' supercalifragilisticexpi-alidocious ("used as a nonsense word...
Television rediscovered him and made him a star for the third time-but the tube soon drained him dry. NBC dropped his option, and at 67 the boy with the funny hats was the old man with the funny scrapbooks. In 1956 his son Keenan advised him to try playing...
MARY POPPINS IS A JUNKIE kicked off the craze. This was the brainchild of San Francisco Disk Jockey Dan Sorkin, who was fed up with the Mary Poppins cult, had 1,000 Poppins stickers run off for his friends, including Julie Andrews, who pasted one on her station wagon. Sorkin...
Harvard's endowment, buoyed by 275,000 shares of General Motors, grows 6 per cent to reach a value of $1,013,000,000. The Administrative Board agrees to consider whether students accused of disciplinary infractions should be allowed to testify in their own behalf. P. L. Travers, creator of...
If you think you see Mary Poppins descending, umbrella and valise in hand, onto Brattle Street, you're wrong. It's just a resident of 83 Brattle Street trying to get her wordly possessions out of the building without benefit of an elevator.