Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steam heat is, in fact, the ideal climate for Mauldin's style of searing creativity. In an art that often uses a shovel instead of a rapier, a backslap instead of a boot, Mauldin, 39, wields the hottest editorial brush in the U.S. Full of caustic and rebellious passions, he boils over onto his drawing board with the scalding effect of a well-aimed spit of lava. "You've got to be a misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends...
...fork-spoon combination that clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...
Clanging snowplows and a small army of shovelers shattered Georgetown's calm one morning last week as they attacked the big drifts in front of the home of New York Herald Tribune Reporter Rowland Evans. Inquisitive neighbors turned out to wonder how Evans rated such meticulous attention from District of Columbia street cleaners. Neighbor George Herman, a CBS correspondent, tried to urge the men to go on and shovel his driveway. The street cleaners demurred, confided that they had orders to clear just enough parking space for President Kennedy, and for the Secret Service men who would stand guard...
...always ready to eat," he says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...
...narrowed coronary arteries can supply. But angina can also come to the most relaxed and unexcited person. Last week, in the A.M.A. Journal, Los Angeles' Dr. Myron Prinzmetal reported that he and five colleagues have identified 23 cases of a strange angina that holds off while its victims shovel snow from their driveways or play 36 holes of golf but attacks when they are quietly resting...