Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reportorial masquer ades since the New York World's Nellie Bly feigned madness for ten days in the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island. On Seltzer's instructions, Assistant Picture Editor Gordon, 25 and an exMarine, took the police civil-service test a year ago, quietly "quit" the Press last January to enter the police academy and begin a life of "applied schizophrenia." In re peated close calls, he managed to avoid acquaintances on the street, at a theater, in a restaurant. Off duty, he labored over a diary that grew to 600 type written pages...
...novelist (Ivalu, Eskimo), autobiographer (It's All Adventure, Vagrant Viking), whose Eskimo-life reporting is considered first-rate popularized anthropology; of a heart attack; at Elmendorf Air Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Irascible, impetuous, cantankerous, big (6 ft. 4 in.) Peter Freuchen, descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live, love like an Eskimo. In 1912 Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike...
...fashionable soiree in an elegant apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue. Among the guests was Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, who joined the Communist Party in 1943, won the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953 but quit the Communist Party in noisy but regretful disgust after Hungary. At the party, says Fast in a 30,000-word article prepared for publication next month in a new magazine called Prospectus,* the fascinating folk around him included...
...southwest side, the boys continued their endless search for a buck. One day they would haul ashes; the next would bring a handsome $2 for passing out handbills (patent-medicine ads) to workers at the Ford River Rouge plant. Soon afterward, Jimmy, who was later to lecture at Harvard, quit Neinas School after the ninth grade...
...that, in the end, Producer Zanuck and Director King do not quit when Hemingway is ahead. The film's semihappy ending is an altogether sappy ending. The book made it plain that there was no hope for Jake and Brett ever to alter or escape their anguished, futile bondage. Yet the movie has them finally agreeing to the silver-lined proposition that "there must be some answer for us -somewhere...