Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vermont Connecticut Royster joined the Wall Street Journal rather casually. Fresh from college in 1936, he had been fired from a New York City news service and turned down by almost every paper in town. About to call it quits, he noticed the Journal on a newsstand. "Well, that's one I haven't tried," he thought. He was hired on a temporary basis, and claims that he still is a temporary fillin, though now he happens to be editor. Occasionally he asks Publisher Barney Kilgore: "When am I going to be permanent?" Kilgore puts...
National Names. Royster is a North Carolina boy who was shrewd enough not to shed all his country ways in the big city. He still has a fetching Southern drawl, a dry wit that takes people by surprise, and a name that stands out even in New York. Vermont's great-granddaddy, a practical man, decided to name his children after states in order to tell them apart. Along came Iowa Michigan Royster, Wisconsin Illinois, Arkansas Delaware, Virginia Carolina, Georgia Alabama, Nathaniel Confederate States. No hard feelings about Yankees; one boy was named Vermont Connecticut, and the name...
...Vermont, Ma Calloway (Vera Miles) yearns for "a house with real snap-on lights." Pa (Brian Keith) and Son Bucky (Brandon deWilde) seem content with a cabin in the pines, where their pet bear can hibernate under the floor boards. The menfolk only want to raise $1,100 to buy a private lake where the geese can set down en route north or south, as the case may be. But a halfway house for geese is not a simple matter, not by a long shot...
...survives hand-to-claw combat with a snarling wolverine, beats up the town bully, and finally notices that his childhood playmate (Linda Evans) seems different, somehow, now that she's 17. The bear exits and enters to signal the passing seasons. Fall or winter, though, Those Galloways' Vermont is effulgently photographed. Children of 10 or so will probably be delighted with it, unless they are off on some wild goose chase more challenging to young minds...
...legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to 99 years. Abolition lost in Indiana this month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence" and argued that New York can punish murder "without resort to barbarism of this kind...