Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arkansas-born John Keener Wadley, who lost his only grandson to leukemia in 1943, has since given more than $2,000,000 to the J. K. and Susie L. Wadley Research Institute in Dallas. When he turned 90, Wadley was confident that the Institute had now struck it rich in cancer research. At his party, he told how nine-year-old Frank Hayes Jr. had been in the last stages of acute leukemia when Dr. Joseph M. Hill began giving him injections of the bacterial extract, L-asparaginase. Within a month, the boy's grotesquely swollen glands had shrunk...
Ellington says that his greatest competition today is the Duke Ellington of 25 years ago. In those days, his raw, rich musical language had already established him as a great innovator. His audiences today tend to expect to hear the same Ellington, but he will have none of that. "We could've gone on for 50 years," he says, "just playing the old things and saying, This is our noise, baby.' But it's a form of condescension, the worst of all artistic offenses...
Great Winds. Each page in Lord Russell's autobiography disputes what is on the other side. He combined a rigorous skeptical rationalism with a naturally religious temperament. He was a rich aristocrat in the days when a peer was a peer, but became an "international socialist" and pacifist-exhibiting the gift of naivete that he possesses in such abundance today. Earlier, having become a teetotaler to please his wife, he had taken up drinking again because "the King took the pledge during the First War. His motive was to facilitate the killing of Germans, and it therefore seemed...
Dotty Aunt. Bertie was born destined for great things, but what things? Grandfather Lord John Russell had been Prime Minister, and his mother was a Stanley-one of a rich and titled tribe that took a hand more than once in governing England. His father, Lord Amberley, was a freethinker; his mother an even freer one. They died in Bertie's infancy, leaving him to be brought up by two atheist tutors. Mother had been sleeping with one of them, but on the highest principles: poor fellow was a tubercular, and it was then thought that he should have...
...tells about his industrious masturbation-at 94, he should surely allow himself to forget what he was doing at 15-and of the first time he fell in love, presumably with someone other than himself. His unhappy choice was Alys Pearsall Smith, who came from a family of rich emigre Philadelphia Quakers. She used the Friends' virtue of truth-telling as a cozy cover for natural malice. It was years before he found this...