Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Choice among the poetry selections are George Starbuck's Poems For a First Year in Boston (dedicated to Jonathan Edwards on the bicentenary of his death): "I. New Year: Arrival from San Francisco," "II. Olympus Having Weathered One More Winter in Boston," "III. Boston: Progress Report." The seven pages of verse are luxurious with alliterations, line and internal rhyme, and rhythmic variety, yet rarely seem splashy. Moreover, Starbuck has successfully used slang to aid rather than preclude intelligibility. The sense of the well sustained poem is a rare combination of sophistication and humanitarianism--a "Wasteland" reconsidered, as it were, featuring...
...Lieut. Colonel G. W. Meates was attracted to the Darent River site by an old report that workmen digging postholes more than 200 years ago found a mosaic floor. Moving in with a crew of diggers, he quickly proved that the 18th century fence builders had really stumbled on something. Little by little he uncovered the lower parts of a magnificent villa that was probably inhabited for 300 years. Beside mosaic flooring, it had sculpture of imported Greek marble, a fine painting of water nymphs, and a heated bath...
Giant Gulf Oil Corp. announced that it will analyze the speeches, voting and attendance records of "Congressmen; then Gulf management will report its findings to its 161,000 shareholders, employees and dealers. If the program proves a success, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), among other companies, will copy it. Top executives from U.S. business are now forming conservative but nonpartisan Americans for Constitutional Action to endorse pro-business candidates. Headed by Admiral Ben Moreell, who retires this week as chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., ACA counts among its trustees Armstrong Cork Co. Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; former Sears, Roebuck...
...British East India Company thought it would be a good idea to annex Sind, a sizable province in what is now Pakistan. General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., was glad to oblige, and before long he was able to send a progress report to his superiors. He did so, one legend has it, in a signal that represents one of history's more famous puns: "Pec-cam [I have sinned...
Duty Galls. In La Spezia, Italy, after a car driven by Police Chief Luigi Scotti collided with a motorcycle at an intersection, Scotti wrote up a report of the incident, charged himself with failing to grant the right of way, collected a $1.60 fine from himself on the spot...