Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent column, Humorist Art I Buchwald claims that he hopped into a London taxi shouting, "Take me to your swingers." To which the cabbie replied: "Oh, you read the TIME magazine cover story too." After Buchwald failed in several attempts to find the swinging city we described (April 15), he went to the Time & Life Building on New Bond Street. There he watched correspondents watusi with comely researchers. "On each desk was a champagne bucket," he writes, "and when they saw me, someone forced a glass into my hand. 'Welcome to swinging London!' a secretary cried. I could...
...Chinese seem to feel that news, like eggs, improves with age. At any rate, the story was nine days old when it was bannered across Page One of every paper in Peking last week. CHAIR MAN MAO ENJOYS A SWIM IN THE YANGTZE, read the identical headlines. At an annual swimming meet on July 16 in the city of Wuhan, the 72-year-old "greatest leader of the people of the world" had trod "firmly" down the gangplank of a motor launch in the Yangtze, "with glowing ruddy cheeks and in buoyant spirits." There, in the presence of "tens...
...Socialist, he was a pacifist. But he was also tough. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940, the German ambassador called on Foreign Minister Spaak to read a statement from Hitler. The German never got a chance to speak. "My turn first, Mr. Ambassador," said Spaak, before he threw the German out. Escaping from the Wehrmacht, Spaak spent the war in London as Foreign Minister of the Belgian government-in-exile...
...myself," Welthy Honsinger Fisher once wrote, "I am a fair organizer and a bit of a hustler." And so at the age of 72, she went to work training Indians to teach their illiterate countrymen to read and write Hindi. That was 13 years ago. Now 85, "Lady Literacy," as she is known in the Indian press, is still a bit of a hustler, and the Literacy Village near Lucknow is training 450 teachers a year...
Lanterns & Bicycles. As the author of eight straightforward books, Mrs. Fisher is impressed by plain talk. She hit upon the scheme of teaching unlettered peasants to read and write a basic Hindi vocabulary, which she compiled by comparing lists of words most commonly used in the marketplace and household. At its opening in 1953, Literacy Village was one-half a bungalow in Allahabad, a few workers, and a few booklets within the vocabulary range. Today, it is a compound of 20 brick buildings on a country road outside Lucknow, with a courtyard, an ashram for prayer, and a well-worked...