Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others on Humphrey's short list: Maine Senator Edmund Muskie; Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy brother-in-law; New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes; Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris; San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto...
...that New York's Lincoln Cen ter is scrabbling frantically for funds, or faced with the gloomy prospect of closing its doors if more money is not forthcoming. Yet even with nearly $170 million in the kitty, the Center is still almost $6,000,000 short of what it needs to complete the remaining buildings on the 14-acre complex. "It is raising those last few millions that is the most difficult," says Board Chairman John D. Rockefeller III. But now to the financial rescue comes Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, 78, co-founder of the Reader's Digest...
...young sons, then his wife, Grandville's art took a grotesque turn. He started sketching his dreams and nightmares, as Baudelaire decribed it, "with all the precision of a stenographer writing down an orator's speech." In 1847, his third son died. Brokenhearted, Grandville died a short time later...
...rummage through your soul like a pickpocket through a stolen purse." Or because one way of dealing with Kim Novak's acting is to pretend that it was meant to be that way. In any case, the decision to spoof it up was the only course possible, short of dropping the whole project...
...Crane gloated too soon. Although he scribbled furiously all of his short life (twelve volumes of novels, poems, sketches, short stories), none of his later works ever remotely approached the success of The Red Badge, written before he had ever heard a shot fired in anger. When he died of tuberculosis in a German sanatorium on June 5, 1900, not yet 29, he was destitute and had been begging money from his literary friends, including Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His brother had to pay to have his body brought home to New Jersey for burial. It was the sort...