Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's Fort Ethan Allen. The University of Michigan has set up a prefabricated "vet's village." Wisconsin's "Vetsburg" is a thriving town of trailers. Some 50 other campuses have trailer colonies housing from 100 to 400 couples. Unmarried students at Indiana University sleep in dormitory hallways and on cots set up in gyms and locker rooms...
...with an inexact mustache, a burbling laugh and one of the world's warmest wits; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Best-known and loved as an author (The Treasurer's Report; After 1903, What?) and cinemono-loguist (Love Life of a Polyp; How to Sleep), diffident Bob Benchley got a diffident start with the Curtis Publishing Co. ("They stayed in Philadelphia in their small way, and I went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life and the New Yorker. Though no mean cracksman...
...summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces and pigs." The estate has 66 cows, 8,000 chickens and ducks, 135 pigs, and room for 20 com posers. In the main building the composers eat, sleep, loaf and criticize each other's music. Nearby are five dachas, or cottages, where each composer can lock himself in to work in privacy. There, during the past two summers, Shostakovich finished his Eighth Symphony, Khachaturian, his Second, and Prokofiev finished his Fifth and began his Sixth. Prokofiev worked...
Author Bruff had written, and failed to publish, six previous novels. She had put her husband to sleep reading them to him. But she had kept him wide awake with The Manatee. An acquaintance made a businesslike suggestion: hire a press agent to sell the Bruff product in a businesslike way. Her husband approved. She hired Hollywood's Russell Birdwell for $50,000 for two years. Chief theme of his publicity: Miss Bruff, a free and gifted soul, had escaped or been expelled from almost every school she had attended...
...they were having an adventure in race relations. That night eleven-year-old Fred Buker, who is white, and his roommate, Bobby Paige, who is black, had so much to talk about that Bobby's aunt threatened to spank them both if they didn't get to sleep...