Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some people have to be told how to spell "cat," even people with a normally good education...
Either I got tongue-tied or your reporter doesn't know how to spell "T-o-m," or both, for there is one mistake in your otherwise splendid article on me and my boxing museum (TIME, Nov. 22). You quote me as saying Jack Sharkey was the fifth greatest fighter. Of course, it was Tom Sharkey, the original sailor boy, whom I meant. Tom was a real fighter...
Gone Again. But by week's end the spell had worn off. Out of WPB came sour reports: Don Nelson was gloomy again about the agency's future, might soon sit down and write another resignation...
...drought was really on: The cloakroom of the U.S. Senate rumbled with such eloquent outrage over the dry spell that Nevada's balding James Scrugham (successor to the late Key Pittman) asked the Judiciary Committee to find the causes of hoarded, high-priced, hard-to-find spirits. Said Senator Scrugham, plaintively: "I have made some personal investigation of this matter...
...Hypnotic Spell. Most of Indigo's 372 pages are given over to the complicated feud of Gisele's mother, the bitter widow of a French indigo planter, and the English colony of Amritpore-a war that reaches into the past (since Gisele's father had been the lover of the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Englishwoman who dominated the colony), and into the future (since Gisele's brother Jacques is befriended and made over by the English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that...