Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made history. The young Indian was Mohandas Gandhi, and the nonviolent resistance he was practicing later became a mighty weapon for a weaponless people. To Gandhi himself, nonviolence was much more than a weapon; it was part of a religious way of life which he called Satyagraha. In a short book published this week-Satyagraha (Henry Regnery, $2)-Gandhi Disciple Ranganath R. Diwakar explains this philosophy to Western readers...
...hideous funk about it," he wrote to a friend. But the funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell what Q was like...
...campus, it created more stir than anything Yale had done on the field all fall. Undergraduates cheered and telegrams poured in. Newspaper editorials applauding Yale's gesture as something which fell only a little short of the Emancipation Proclamation. Actually it was more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...
Died. Lewis R. ("Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...
...readers suspect how much headwork goes into headlines. A head must do more than nutshell the news and lure the reader into the story. First & foremost, it must "count," which means that the type must fit an allotted space. Hemmed in by columns, the copydesker spends his life finding short words like "nips" for long ones like "arrests...