Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bird Man of Alcatraz. One of the strangest cases in U.S. penal history is that of Robert F. Stroud, who spent 43 years in solitary confinement. As the convict murderer who became a bird expert behind bars, Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career...
...Newest Sound Around (Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; RCA Victor). And the strangest. Songstress Lee has a foggy, seductive voice that occasionally strikes interesting effects from such laments as Laura and Lover Man. But for the most part, her pace is too languid. Pianist Blake, on the other hand, is a real find-wry, big-toned, and unfailingly inventive...
...free from the grim bourgeois straitjacket she so compellingly described in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Sartre, 24, the high-priest-to-be of existentialism, was a physically unprepossessing philosopher with an urge to write. The two plighted their troth in what was destined to become one of the strangest and most durable extracurricular alliances of modern times. The Prime of Life is Simone de Beauvoir's account of her own philosophical growth and self-inflicted torments from 1929 to 1944-the first 15 years of her life with Sartre...
...Crimson golfers have perhaps the strangest playing set-up of any Harvard team. The College, of course, does not have its own course; thus, only the courtesy of two nearby golf clubs allows Harvard to field a squad at all. The team will practice on the Clyde course of The Country Club, the site of the 1963 Open, and play its matches at Myopia Hunt Club, a sporty course of 6400 yards with tiny greens and narrow fairways lined with trees, water, and a multitude of out of bounds markers...
Cleared Throat. At midnight comes one of radio's strangest and longest shows. Long John Nebel is on until 5 a.m. with a herd of beat and offbeat guests-flying-saucer spotters, clairvoyants, steam-locomotive buffs, all single-mindedly devoted to their own idiosyncrasies. Nebel greets the dawn undaunted by the knowledge that his audience of loyal fans consists mainly of insomniacs, night-blooming necromancers, and hash slingers in all-night diners. After Long John, the station clears its throat with a half-hour of music called Sunrise Serenade before John A. Gambling begins another garrulous...