Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Roden paid off his tax debts within a year, he could not quit. For more than six years he averaged a raid a week, stealing in all some 400 cattle, worth $90,000. Even after giving Mischker his cut, Roden had enough left over to finance his roulette losses and to set up a beauty parlor for his girl friend, Widow Irmgard Wakulenko...
...Charles) Easton Rothwell, 57, as eighth president of select (enrollment: 726) Mills College for women, "the Vassar of the West," in Oakland, Calif. Historian Rothwell succeeds Historian Lynn White Jr., who quit after 15 years to teach medieval history at U.C.L.A. A stocky, balding Westerner, raised in Montana, Easton Rothwell graduated from Portland's Reed College (1924), taught social sciences at the University of Oregon and Stanford. He switched to the State Department in World War II, became a top adviser to Cordell Hull, went on in 1947 to Stanford's famed Hoover Institute of War, Revolution...
...ocean? It's what keeps a man alive. Worrying about stripers ain't going to hurt. No, sir. Only give a lot of walking and smelling and good living. Worrying about stripers, you don't grow so's you're ready to bark and quit on life...
...producer's next play, about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young girl, is headed nowhere. Realizing that he is a has-been, Gable decides to quit Broadway, fires his 22-year-old secretary (Carroll Baker). She turns on him and snarls: "I love you. I hope you rot for spoiling love for me with other men. You did a terrible thing to me. You opened my eyes and heart and never touched me.'' So he touches her. There, by golly, is the twist he needs. The young girl in his play should...
...Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...