Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesotans, long inured to outlandish place names, got six more this week when Governor Orville L. (for Lothrop) Freeman conferred the names of famed Minnesota-born (or claimed) newsmen upon previously unchristened lakes. Picked for immortality among the state's 10,000 or more lakes: the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Harrison E. (for Evans) Salisbury; Look's Editorial Director Daniel D. (for Danforth) Mich; Humorist (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) Max Shulman; Sig Mickelson, CBS's vice president in charge of news; Reader's Digest Editor (and founder) DeWitt Wallace...
...Hartack, unlike many of his colleagues, weight is never a problem. He eats outlandish combinations of foods?potato chips, pickles and ice cream, for example; yet he seldom needs to glance at a jockey's sweatbox. Nor does he need much sleep; no matter how late he bids his date good night, he sits up for an hour or two examining the past-performance charts to prepare himself for the next day in the saddle...
When Dr. William S. Carlson, 52, became president of the 2½-year-old State University of New York in 1952, he took over what is probably the most outlandish educational hodgepodge in the nation. From his Albany office, which is not even on a campus, he watches over two medical schools, a forestry and a maritime college, four community colleges, a fashion institute of technology, six technical institutes, six more technical-and-agricultural institutes, twelve teachers colleges. There are also colleges of ceramics, agriculture, home economics, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine (operated through special contracts by Cornell...
...composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...
...drubbing in 4 ½ years. One by one the House and Senate whacked away at appropriation bills for the various Government departments-State, Justice, Commerce, etc. The House score at week's end: cuts of nearly $1.5 billion and an ambition to cut $1.5 billion more. In one outlandish saber dance the House cut off all 1958 funds for the Administration's soil bank program, designed to ease farm gluts by paying farmers to take land out of production. Chances were good that the Senate, or even the House itself, would reverse this drastic action...