Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey-flannel-suited dirt farmerette from New Jersey named Doris Duke, better known as a money-marinated tobacco heiress and sometime jazz pianist, bitterly argued the merits of floribunda hedges and compost heaps in a Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget...
...attack, which gradually slowed him to a point where he went into semiretirement. Though he was a rich man with a 20% interest in his firm (which he left in trust to colleges, churches and hospitals), he never retired entirely. Last week, at 70, Charlie Merrill died in his sleep at his Southampton home. Recently he gave one of his last bits of advice to Main Street: "I think every American would do well to invest one-twelfth of his investable funds monthly in stocks over the next five years...
...Stevenson, however, the process of preparing one or two long speeches every day is hellish. His three secretaries who sleep as best they can on cavalcade tours, begin work usually after Stevenson's evening speech continuing into the early morning. But Stevenson, who is looking more each day like a 20-hour-a-day candidate, works harder and longer than any of his staff, reporters say. "If he breaks down," one newsman commented, "there'll be a real health issue in this campaign...
Wolfe speaks for and to the young, particularly to young men who know instinctively that "it is good to eat, to drink, to sleep, to fish, to swim, to run, to travel to strange cities, to ride on land, sea and in the air upon great machines, to love a woman, to try to make a beautiful thing." He speaks against the naysayers who consider such occupations futile, and orders them to "go bury themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists...
Foreign Service. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., arrested for illegal entry into the U.S. for the fifth time, after he crossed the border atop a boxcar and wandered into a police station looking for a place to sleep, 18-year-old Jacque Paul Norman Gagne told immigration officials his ambition: to go to Washington and get a job as a Treasury Department investigator...