Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good friends on TIME are NATIONAL AFFAIRS Editor Max Ways and London Bureau Chief André Laguerre. A strong bond between them is their fond devotion to the ancient, if somewhat occult, science of handicapping. Ways regards Laguerre as the sage of Paris' Longchamp and London's Ascot, while Laguerre considers Ways nonpareil when it comes to picking them at New York's Belmont and Miami's Hialeah. Last week the old friends were getting ready to trade these special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...August Moon, perhaps because Robert Lewis ably directed both plays. There is a like comedy of nationalities, a comparable use of picturesque detail; in one play a needed road is stalled in red tape, in the other it is a needed schoolhouse; in one, an engaging young native sage holds forth, in the other it is an engaging young native duffer. But the difference between the two plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced...
...after a Negro was lynched in Maryland's Eastern Shore town of Salisbury, the late Baltimore Sage H. L. Mencken, exploding in Baltimore's Evening Sun, hurled a carboy of acid across Chesapeake Bay at the lynchers and their ilk. Sample corrosives: "The Eastern Shore Kultur ... an Alsatia of morons . . . ignorant and ignoble minds." Maryland's state senate recently held a roll call on a resolution expressing "the sorrow of the General Assembly of Maryland over the passing of Henry Louis Mencken." It passed, not unanimously as such resolutions usually do, but by a vote...
Last month, when newsmen were admitted through the heavy security net around the Lincoln Laboratories, they saw for the first time the M.I.T.-developed SAGE warning system--"semi-automatic ground environment." Designed to eliminate human errors in data-processing, Project Lincoln's electronic devices assemble and evaluate battle information, and even direct the attack of interceptors. With the Bedford installation serving as a prototype coordinating the air defense of New England, 32 similar centers are projected for the United States and Canada...
...film by Writer Nunnally Johnson, Bette did not even appear, as the dialogue driveled on between drama ("We belong together; I know we do") and comedy ("It's raining cats and dogs; I just stepped in a poodle"). When she finally did appear as a bedridden sage spouting inspirational cliches, she was as stiff and formal as Queen Victoria issuing a proclamation. It all seemed like an expensive piece of sabotage in which 20th Century-Fox was trying to convince viewers to stay away from...