Word: unorthodox
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...Carefully worded "merger" announcements befogged and nearly obscured the real news: Cleveland's famed William S. Jack and Ralph M. Heintz had sold out their wildly unorthodox war baby...
...John O'Hara. Pardon us, but we had thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which are sheer poetry in spots are well on their way toward becoming American classics that are required reading for any student of literature. . . . JOHN C. HENCHEL E. L. GALLIGAN Philadelphia
Tall Ellis M. Zacharias, a Navy captain with a flair for the unorthodox, was one of the first skippers to go after the Japs, ended up as an intelligence officer, making highly effective propaganda broadcasts in near-perfect Japanese. Last week he showed up in a particularly unorthodox light-the Pearl Harbor Committee discovered that here was one Navy man who had been 100% right about the time and place of the attack...
...York's liveliest and most unpredictable radio shows has been Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Talk to the People. Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little Flower has rasped and ricocheted his way through 30 minutes of the most unorthodox chatter on the air. He left sentences dangling, blithely mispronounced words, skipped syllables when he tantrum-well felt like it. He growled at chiselers, sang sarcastically at enemies, squeaked angrily at hecklers. He read the comics, with expression, and told housewives how to prepare oxtail ragout. All this made lively listening...
From the start, A.P. was noted for his daring and unorthodox operations. When his bank building was destroyed in San Francisco's earthquake in 1906, he opened a new bank in a waterfront shed, expanded by lending to businessmen who had been wiped out. A pioneer in branch banking, he now has California blanketed with 491 Bank of America branches. He became Hollywood's banker, has so far lent the movie industry...