Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After one shocked look at his invitation from Chicago's Irish Fellowship Club to come to a St. Patrick's Day banquet, Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell decided that even Irishmen can carry fellowship too far. The scheduled after-dinner speaker: Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). After turning down the bid, Chicagoan Mitchell wrote: "I will not break bread with a man who has borne false witness against over 30 million Americans...
Stranded far from town, Stephen Coryat, a writer, accepts a gracious offer to spend the night at the House of Gair, a thrifty Scottish version of Manderley, of Rebecca fame. His host turns out to be an Edwardian dandy of 77 named Hazeldon Crome, who had himself written a novel in the '90s called A Quiet Day in Old Cockaigne. Crome charms Stephen completely with his milk & whisky pick-me-ups, his billiard game, and his nostalgic reveries on the days of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley...
...infant's inability to pass stools. Surgeons at Babies Hospital have devised a daring operation to open the intestine and flush it out with a trypsin solution. This technique is also being used in Boston under the guidance of Pediatrician Harry Shwachman, and in Los Angeles by Dr. Stephen Royce and his associates. It has prevented many deaths. After surgery, such a child will present the same problems as those whose symptoms develop a few months later in life...
That moved West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew Neely to remark that Gillette "in effect, told us to go to the birds." The success of this retort inspired Neely to still further heights. He suggested that the Senate borrow from the late Humorist Stephen Leacock...
...Senator Neely can't tell Stephen Leacock from Roland Young, who wrote The Flea...