Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without a Word. An intense and dedicated man with 33 years' service in the New York City school system, Schoolmaster Goldfarb seemed worn down and overwhelmed by the troubles that beset him. The night before he was to testify before the grand jury he had mailed a letter to the police department asking that a patrolman be stationed inside his school. Next morning he appeared as usual at his office before 8, took up some routine matters with his staff, at 9:30 left the building, having said that he was due to go to the courthouse...
...never arrived. Instead he headed for his own six-story apartment house, climbed to the roof and, without leaving a word of explanation behind him, plunged to his death...
Under Managing Editor Herbert Edward Hames Jr., Illinois' Ottawa Republican-Times has earned a reputation as one of the Midwest's spunkiest small dailies (circ. 13,225). In six years on the job, outspoken Editor Hames tromped on many high-placed toes. Yet, when word got out last week that Herb Hames was being fired, Ottawa's church and community leaders spontaneously banded together to protest the Hames dismissal...
...cards. Hall first approached Churchill through his actress daughter Sarah (who has been sponsored on TV by Hallmark). Churchill refused. Then Hall went to England armed with a letter from Painter Dwight Eisenhower urging Churchill to permit a U.S. exhibition. Sir Winston thought it over, sent Hall a one-word cable: "Okay...
...Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence...