Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edward Francis McGrady, 88, shrewd, head-banging labor-relations expert and strike-settling Government troubleshooter in both world wars, an F.D.R. crony who became a take-charge Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1937 (once provoking Boss Frances Perkins to snort, "Now, now, Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of Labor"); of advanced cerebral artery disease; in Newtonville, Mass. A onetime Harvard College boxing instructor, newspaper pressman, Massachusetts state legislator and A.F.L. Washington lobbyist (1919-33), McGrady left fulltime Government service in 1937 to become an RCA vice president, stayed on as a director until last year...
...unseated the camera-toting American as the most unwelcome guest. Said a Cologne industrialist at his campsite: "I look upon camping as a denial of the materialism that has sprung up in Germany. Outdoors we can turn our backs on our material gains and try to find the answers." Snort Italian shopkeepers and French bistro owners: The Germans are campers because they are pfennig pinchers...