Word: salem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sisters of Salem. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas told his own off-the-bench story in Of Men and Mountains, one of the most satisfying self-portraits of the year. From another century and another kind of man came Boswell's London Journal, a gamy confession that many readers tackled with more relish than they ever had for Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson...
...nostalgic group of Hoosiers in Boston caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...
...Salem...
...letter went off airmail last week to ex-farmer Mao, case-hardened Communist boss of Red China-signed by Henry Wallace, ex-Vice President of the U.S., ex-leader of the Communist-line Progressive Party, now a repentant chicken-and-strawberry farmer with headquarters in South Salem...
This week, deserted by even the Reds, pitied by a few, Henry Wallace was back on his South Salem farm, experimenting with hybrid chicks and strawberries...