Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against soliciting funds from any source, as far as I know." But when it got the news of Porter's letter-as printed in the Washington Post and Times-Herald-the Administration exploded. Republican National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn blew hot into the White House switchboard, and the word was relayed to President Eisenhower, who reddened and snapped: "Let's check the facts on this...
...when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice. Among his biggest boners: the purges of the late '30s, trusting Hitler, feuding with Tito, believing in inevitable war between capitalist and socialist states. "Stalinism" is now officially a tainted word, but that is not Joe's fault: "The term is an invention of reactionary imperialist circles...
Father Lukaszweski, 35, shimpu-san (priest) of a flock of 3,000, went to Nase in 1952 straight from four years of working among the poor in Bridgeport. When he arrived, he spoke no Japanese; today he sometimes has to search for the right word in English. He and two other Franciscan priests (both American) and two lay brothers tour the island by jeep-and when the jeeps break down, on foot. "We count distances not in miles but in mountains climbed," says Father Jerome...
Paul Gibson, 50, a breezy, blond-mustached one-man show, sings no songs, spins no disks, reads no news, conducts no interviews, but manages somehow to keep 23 sponsors happily shelling out for his 13 mellifluous hours a week over Chicago's WBBM. A self-styled "word jockey," Gibson just talks, about anything from sex to Sputniks. After 16 glib years on radio, he is now also talking on TV. "Don't bother to look at me," he assures fans on his 45-minute daily early-morning show. "I'll tell you if something is on-camera...
...word jockey's favorite topic: women. Baiting them-as shrewish, lazy, selfish-is his technique for keeping them tuned in and writing 1,500 letters a week. An expert on the subject after five marriages, Gibson says: "Women are really happiest when they are being abused. It's impossible to keep a woman comfortable and happy at the same time. I've lost more wives that way. I throw the verbal stones and the women lick their wounds and lie back in ecstasy." Sample stone: "Nothing makes a woman look more like a bag than wearing...