Word: zealotism
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...Mercury cause is right down Airforceman McCrary's alley: "Sink the Navy." An air-power zealot, he won a public-relations victory for the A.A.F. with his "flying circus" that sped correspondents into Shanghai before the surrender, into Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the wake of the atomic bombs...
...with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems of the English language. A year ago he was made a professor, but he still spends more time working on Basic than...
...father and his 18-year-old son-the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot-set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone. Between them the Lomaxes recorded 10,000 songs, many of which had never been heard more than five miles from the prisons, corrals or lumber camps where the Lomaxes found them...
Died. William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, 82, genial, world-famed prohibition zealot; of a bladder ailment; in Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country...
...Zealot Morden got him a job on Orson Welles's radio program. Then, with the help of Washington's 27-year-old Nesuhi Ertegun, erudite, diminutive son of the late Turkish Ambassador, she founded the Crescent Record Co. Zealot Ertegun is passionately certain that New Orleans jazz is a genuine art form, and America's chief contribution to culture. His most obvious reason for founding the company was to get the Kid back on wax. (Ory's 1921 Sunshine recordings-Ory's Creole Trombone, Society Blues-were probably the first Negro-made records...