Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career in government. Within two years, after due service in Edinburgh, Milton was in Washington as assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, whom President Coolidge named to his Cabinet in 1925. And shortly after that, along came big brother Ike, then an obscure Army major called to Washington to write a guidebook for the American Battle Monuments Commission...
...Chicago's high-velocity radio station WIND was noisily blowing good toward an unaccustomed quadrant-the city's high schools. Teen-agers got a daily earful of such airborne blasts as: "Want to hear about a contest that's fantabulous? Then, guys and gals, listen! Just write, in 50 words or less, a statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample promotion tagline: "The little red school...
...chemistry, mathematics and engineering science. Whenever possible, liberal arts courses are keyed to the sciences. Students learn, for instance, the sort of culture England had when Newton developed his laws of motion. But the liberal arts range widely and independently. This year Harvey Mudd's 43 sophomores will write major research papers on nonscientific subjects. Says Assistant English Professor George Wickes: "We don't want to turn out lopsided kids...
...other wonderful, schizofrantic jazz joints that flourished in the Chicago of the '20s. Soon Big Bill was playing far and wide with the best of them-Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Fats Waller. And always there was time to write his own songs: Partnership Woman, House Rent Stomp, Outskirts of Town...
Author MacInnes (a Jumble himself) appears to know and like his Spades, manages to write of them without condescension-and without condescension's obverse, the kind of Negro-worship shown by U.S. Beatnik Jack Kerouac. The book's slight plot sags a little, but the gaiety and moroseness of wild, roiled lives are well told, and the reader gets a Spadeful of irony as the dark minstrel Lord Alexander sings...