Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sick Old Man. King Norodom listened to the radio playback, tucked into a square meal prepared by D'Artagnan, the best chef in Cambodia, and then got into his blue station wagon to change palaces with his parents. His father, 59-year-old Prince Suramarit, has long been his close adviser; his mother, Princess Norodom Suramarit, is a handsome woman who has long kept a sharp, appraising eye upon her royal son's dancing girls and political enemies. "I am a sick old man," proclaimed the new King, getting into the spirit of his son's abdication...
Many a managing editor worries more about his comic strips than his front page. Last week Philadelphia Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister gave the editors more to worry about. Said he: "Comics, once regarded as a specific for all circulation ills, are now the sick chicks of the newspaper business." The measure of a strip has long been 50% readership for a good comic, up to 80% for the best., e.g., Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner. But a recent survey in one major U.S. city showed that of 40 strips published, only 13 have 50% readership...
...where he met another brilliant young law student, Pierre Mendès-France. In 1931 Faure married tall, blonde, elegant Lucie Meyer, daughter of a prosperous silk merchant, took his old friend Mendès on the honeymoon-a months-long tour of Russia (Mendès took sick, was sent home), during which Faure polished up the Russian he had learned at Paris' School of Oriental Languages. Years later, Faure startled a Soviet trade delegation by discoursing for four hours in fluent Russian, stumbling only over the word for "corkscrew...
Columbia was able to take only three second places and never scorded two men in one event. Jim Amlicke placed between Marshall Walter and John Montgomery in the low-board dive, and Sheldon Weiderhorn edged a sick Bill Hoadley for the second spot behind Sigo Falk in the breaststroke...
...Public Philosophy, Pundit Lippmann comes to some challenging conclusions about the ills that plague the democracies. He weakens his argument by not differentiating between the democracies-between the chronically sick French variety, for instance, and the vigorous but complex American form. But his diagnosis is well worth listening to: 1) public opinion is dominating the executive branch of democratic governments to the point of enfeeblement and paralysis, and 2) the democracies have abandoned the philosophy on which they were founded, i.e., the principle of the natural...