Word: signer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this role, Norris Poulson, 65, an accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
Piroshki & Klyukva. Wilson's ruble romance began in 1953, when he learned from travelers that Live with Lightning had been translated into Russian and was selling like piroshki. Although Russia is not a signer of the Universal Copyright Convention and ordinarily pirates foreign works without payment, Wilson wrote to Moscow and asked for royalties. He received no reply till two years later, when the Russians decided to serialize My Brother, and after a protracted exchange of cables deposited $6,000 in his U.S. bank account. Author Wilson has so far collected about $20,000, expects to make another...
Long Lists. But if Linus Pauling's list of scientific honors is as long as his arm, so is the list of way-out political organizations he has supported. Pauling is a signer and, with all the zeal of a highbrowed Babbitt, a joiner. He will put his name on most anything presented to him with even a faint humanitarian argument. Many of the outfits he has endorsed were merely odd. But some were undeniably Communist fronts, and they have got him in trouble...
Happy Daze. In Los Angeles, while circulating a petition for the draft-Stevenson drive, Paul E. Winfield was told enthusiastically by an elderly signer, "I voted for Stevenson the last two times, and things have been going so well I'm going to vote for him again...
King John, signer (under duress) of Magna Carta, bathed once every three weeks. Queen Elizabeth, born 317 years after his death, scrubbed herself only once a month, "whether she needed it or no." Thus it may be seen that the history of the human race's sanitary habits is by no means an unchecked upward gush. British Expert Wright-an architect, not a plumber-charts the flow with scholarship, wit, and handsome illustrations ; the resulting volume is better bathtub reading than most recent novels...