Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kilian barracks there was such a big crowd that Peter was about to quit and go home when someone called for a truck driver, and he came forward. Peter drove "a tall colonel who seemed to be in charge" to an arms depot, called the Lamp Factory, where they loaded cases of rifles and machine guns. The revolutionary fever caught Peter up at this point, and he was swept into the battle for Radio Budapest, shooting from the rooftops...
...there were other ways of reaching the Egyptian dictator. Cyril Banks, a Tory M.P. who had quit his party in protest over the Suez occupation, was a close friend of the Moorhouse family and also knew Nasser from his days as a Middle East hand. "What would you really like me to do?" he asked Moorhouse. "Get over to Cairo," was the answer. "I believe that you could bring my son back if he is still alive." Banks promised to do what he could. By now the War Office, the Foreign Office, U.N. headquarters and 10 Downing Street were...
Died. Percy Marks, 65, onetime Brown University English instructor who intoxicated the '20s with The Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound...
...better fitted his talents. Well aware that his parents could not afford to pay the bill (tuition: $1,100 a year), he found a $60-a-week job with Western Electric and began saving his money. Soon he concluded that this job didn't fit his talents either, quit it and tried to land a better-paying one-and failed. Then he had a much brighter idea. "Maybe I wasn't thinking straight," he told the cops, "but I made up my mind that I would rob a bank. I thought I'd manage to get about...
...Alice in Wonderland, he rode (as one colleague says) to "his conquest of Fleet Street on the back of the Mock Turtle." In 1941, Alice-sized (5 ft. 3 in., 120 Ibs.) Vicky landed his first successful newspaper job with London's News Chronicle. After twelve years he quit because an editor refused to run one of his cartoons. Says Vicky: "I have never pandered...