Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...E.S.T.) is doubly instructive. It should teach viewers of all ages plenty about the prospects of life and travel in the solar system, should serve TV producers well as a model of how to combine information with entertainment. A dozen Disney artists and animators under Producer-Director Ward Kimball enjoyed the advantage of a subject that is not only fascinating in itself but, since it soars off into the unpicturable, uniquely suited to their technique. They did not confuse the popular with the vulgar, avoided the error of talking down to the viewer. Mars and Beyond would be worth repeating...
Long-Handle Drawers. Grandfather Pat Kennedy, a saloonkeeper, was the Democratic leader of Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor...
Lord of the Wards. Verlaine did not stick to his reformed way of life. Absinthe and syphilis drove him into a public hospital, where he "was looked after like a child [and] had absolutely no responsibility." This being the condition he had always sought, Verlaine developed a passion for hospitals. Propped up on pillows, he "wrote his way through reams of hospital paper, pouring out poems, prose [and] presided in state over all the affairs of the ward." Young poets and admirers came daily to his bedside, listened rapturously while the Master, his hospital nightcap jauntily askew, recited his poems...
Libby will bring to Capitol Hill a longtime friendship with the racketeers who lurk in the background of the West Side's ward politics. A pal of the late underworld overlord Al Capone, Libonati is still on chummy terms with former Capone henchmen such as Tony Accardo and Paul ("the Waiter") Ricca, who are really "charitable" and "patriotic" fellows, according to Libby. During his two decades in the state legislature, Libby opposed legislation urged by the Chicago Crime Commission, backed bills that gamblers also liked. One piece of legislation paid off nicely: after Libby helped put through a bill...
...York Hospital's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Dr. Frederic F. Flach. working with the Sloan-Kettering Institute's Dr. Rulon W. Rawson, gave T3 to 24 patients kept on a rigid regimen in a metabolic ward where everything they ate, drank and excreted was weighed and analyzed. Most were schizophrenics; some were psychoneurotics. Nearly all were depressed (at times suicidal), emotionally unresponsive, resentful, uninterested in sex and depersonalized (common complaints were "I am numb" and "Everything I do is automatic...