Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Bath. As a youngster, Murray learned from his father to hate Frank Hague, who slapped down Murray Sr. every time he reached for office. When Kenny toppled Hague in 1949, Murray Sr. finally won with him and became Parks Commissioner. But his alliance with Kenny was short-lived. In 1950 the elder Murray defied the boss, backed son Jim for Congress. For this insubordination Kenny stripped Murray of power, put him in charge of Jersey City's one public bath and its nine employees. Then Kenny canceled out the younger Murray with an obscure candidate also...
Zoli can claim the distinction of being one of the first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest...
...seem to remember he is supposed to be falling for Katie. But then along comes Tracy, a "methods engineer" who seems determined to fire the heroine in both senses of the word. He steals her job and gives it to a young lady named Emmy-short for Emmarac. which is short for Electro-Magnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator-but at the fade it turns out he has only stolen her heart...
...issue features poems by I. A. Richards, University Professor, Donald Hall, John Coolidge, Peter Heliczer, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Arthur Freeman, and Roger Morse, and short stories by Juan Alonso, and Guy Davenport...
...been excited talk about the Houses. Almost as if they had just been discovered, suggestions for the fulfillment of the Houses have proliferated monthly. Speculators have suggested that faculty offices be put in the Houses, that sections be held there, that graduate students be drawn into the System--in short, that the University become House-wise. With the new House in the planning we find ourselves tempted to add yet another proposal to the heap: why not design several suites which would accomodate married tutors...